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The thing that seems different about IV is that they try really hard to not seem like a patent troll. I find it a little insulting, at least the other trolls a
by sgdesign 14y ago
The thing that seems different about IV is that they try really hard to not seem like a patent troll.
I find it a little insulting, at least the other trolls are pretty straightforward about it and don't try to pretend they're coming up with inventions or advancing science.
- paulgb 14y agoInterestingly, one of the managing partners of IV, Peter Detkin, is credited for popularizing the term "patent troll".
- brandall10 14y agoHe who smelt it dealt it.
- NelsonMinar 14y agoI continue to hold out this vain hope that Intellectual Ventures is an elaborate satire, an effort by some smart technologists to demonstrate how broken the US patent system is by exploiting it in such a comically villainous fashion.
- rhizome 14y agoYeah, I've thought that they're trying to be a patent martyr too, that they're using every trick that can be used in hopes that eventually it brings about change. Smart people, long game, etc. However, the fact remains that engaging in the bad behavior is...bad.
- CamperBob2 14y agoThe Westboro Baptist Church of patent trolls, in other words.
- 6ren 14y agoThough not for coining it.
- sas 14y agoPeter Detkin also wrote this piece.