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Originally Posted by morantis
Hmm, what about the underwear Gnomes?
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Do you mean the sock gnomes who steal stockings from the laundry, leaving only mismatched pairs of socks?
A "patent troll" is a company (usually a law firm with NO clients and an EMPTY office) that does not produce any product, but makes all their money buying up huge numbers of "useless" patents and suing recently successful companies using crap from their patent portfolio that is "somewhat" like what the successful company did.
They commonly file their lawsuits from a county in Texas USA where the judge gets a portion of the "profits" and will always decide in favor of the patent troll. Big companies usually just pay the patent trolls a big pile of money to go away for awhile. Basically, it is just an "extortion racket"...