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I have a dumb question about patent trolls.

How do they figure out whether stuff is truly infringing a patent in the first place? Surely some corporate espionage is required to figure this out?



They often don’t know, and hope to either settle or find evidence during discovery.


I can't speak generally, but looking at the court filings for this suit, it is relating to techniques for retrofitting stuff onto vehicles, so I imagine merely the installation instructions for comma.ai would be enough to tell them what they need to know.

I don't really know though, my eyes glaze over when I read patents and think about patent law.




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