Yeah, there is even a comment that links to this article by ars technica http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/01/patent-trolls-want-1000-for-using-scanners/2

Yeah, there is even a comment that links to this article by ars technica http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/01/patent-trolls-want-1000-for-using-scanners/2/ http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/01/patent-trolls-wan... which talks about Project Paperless LLC, and several other spin off entities which now do this kind of patent trolling, along with the site "Stop Project Paperless" trying to gather support against the Patent Troll. What I find troubling is that there is no larger site to check up on past history of patents by patent number and whether there are reports of patent trolling using these patents. If there were, it could be used to interconnect business owners to put money together to contest the patent in question. I mean this particular troll in the article I linked was demanding 130k USD from Blue Wave, and the USPTO estimates the cost of an inter partes review at about 193 thousand dollars per patent. Which means if they attempt to extort more than 200k from each patent spread over different businesses, it would make sense for these businesses to pool their resources for an IPR. That would kill the patent and likely, as patent trolls cast their nets large, be cheaper for the individual businesses. But then I'm neither an expert on the topic nor a lawyer, so this is milkmaid patent advice really.