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Originally Posted by =X=
Really then what are you trying to say in your above quote?
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That it isn't the case that 'real' companies develop things, patent them and then use those patents to defend their inventions, while patent trolls buy up other people's patents and then sue to try to make money from them.
That patents have become valuable commodities and are bought and sold as such by 'real' companies, who then sue to enforce their bought patents, even though they had nothing to do with the original invention.
That there is no longer any real link between the original invention and the patent.
And that this is just business as normal. If something has value, it will be bought and sold.
[And just to be clear, HTC is suing Apple, claiming that the iPhone violates the patents HTC bought from Google, who bought them from someone else; they are not using those patents to defend an Apple claim. (Although in patent fights there are always counter-suits, and in effect they become part of the defense by trying to force a cross-licencing agreement.)]