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"who uses patents for anticompetitive purposes". So in other words, any party who uses patents for their intended purpose of granting a limited monopoly is a tr

• shmerl 12y ago
  No, who uses patents for unintended purposes. Patents weren't intended for racket and stifling innovation. They were intended for encouraging innovation. However patent trolls use them for the opposite purpose. To give an example. Let's say company A produces (i.e. invents) something independently of company B. Company B feels greedy, and starts using patents to attack company A. That's not encouraging any innovation - it's completely the opposite. There are many other examples how patents are used for wrong purposes which can be described as trolling.
• DanBC 12y ago
  Is it a monopoly if the person with the limited monoply is not producin anyhing that uses that patent? It's just a non-opoly?