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I'm not really sure on this, but Uniloc owner Ric Richardson doesn't seem prima facie to fit the normal patent troll profile: he appears to be a bona fide inven

I'm not really sure on this, but Uniloc owner Ric Richardson doesn't seem prima facie to fit the normal patent troll profile: he appears to be a bona fide inventor, but then I only looked at wikipedia and his blog http://ricrichardson.blogspot.co.uk/ http://ricrichardson.blogspot.co.uk/ . Doesn't mean I support his action, of course and the whle legal system is fcked, hence the problem of the trolls, like Nathan Myrhvold's "Intellectual Ventures" https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120811/02060619993/nathan-myhrvold-its-ok-to-kill-innovation-if-youre-also-killing-mosquitoes.shtml https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120811/02060619993/natha...

neurotech1 14y ago
Doesn't mean this patent is "non-obvious", not excessively vague/broad. He attracted negative attention by going after X-Plane based on a vaguely scoped patent.
ramblerman 14y ago
"he appears to be a bona fide inventor" Not sure what constitutes a bona fida inventor but the first post on his blog is how he has just taken out a patent on another invention. It seems he just invents stuff to then patent it. To me an inventor builds things. This is more akin to coming up with an idea and then cutting off anybody from every executing that idea without even having executed it yourself.