I agree. Dealing with the "patent troll problem" is actually trying to cure the symptom, not the cause. Patent trolls are a symptom of bad patents, which is wh

I agree. Dealing with the "patent troll problem" is actually trying to cure the symptom, not the cause. Patent trolls are a symptom of bad patents, which is why it's not surprising to see even big companies "patent troll" in exactly the same way. But people tend to give them a break, because "hey, they at least make some stuff" - even if the stuff they make has little to do with the vague patents they use to extort others for money. Kill bad patents (which perhaps not coincidentally tend to be most software patents), and the patent trolling problem will (mostly) disappear, too.