The patents trolls use are mostly the detritus of failed businesses acquired for nothing during liquidation, not garage inventors making good. Part of the prob

The patents trolls use are mostly the detritus of failed businesses acquired for nothing during liquidation, not garage inventors making good. Part of the problem was that every web business in the 90's figured that storing their data online and delivering it by browser was a brand new idea so they all got the same patents over and over. Every troll on the block has a "data on a server" patent.