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It's worth pointing out that the author of this piece is considered by many to be patent troll. https://gigaom.com/2011/04/13/419-jay-walker-goes-nuclear-price

• mawburn 12y ago
  Oddly enough, I think that gives him more credibility in my book. Who better to talk about a system being broken than someone who makes a living exploiting it?
  • jonas21 12y ago
    Another way of looking at this is that his trolling has not been going so well lately [1], so he's trying a change in tactics. The "brokenness" that he sees in the patent system is not that it's too easy to profit from patenting obvious things, but rather that it's too hard. [1] http://www.law360.com/articles/573649/google-wins-invalidation-of-walker-digital-patent-claims http://www.law360.com/articles/573649/google-wins-invalidati...
• logn 12y ago
  I thought that too when I read the end of his article. And he states that only small/mid-size companies worry about infringement so his company is targeting them. In my direct experience at a 50,000 person company, large companies worry too. Our Internet proxy banned no sites except patent databases. Additionally, filing for patents is the other good way to reduce risk. I wonder, does professional liability insurance cover patent infringement?