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		pronoiac on Aug 25, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Patent Trolls Inbound: Our First Lawsuit I think that Intellectual Ventures started out as a defense against patent trolls, but after gathering enough of a patent portfolio, they started playing offense in a way that looks like patent trolling.

staticautomatic on Aug 25, 2022 [–]

The important thing to know is that they did so because the economics of defensive aggregation were insufficient to return capital to the investors.

jacquesm on Aug 25, 2022 | [–]

Which makes it even more disgusting. IV is what wrecked the reputation of a lot of people for me.

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