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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
You know, when a person with a patent sues a big corporation for a patent violation, he's a "patent troll". When a person sue a big corporation over over a copyright violation, he's looked up as a "supporter of author's rights".
I.P. is I.P. Enforcing your I.P. shouldn't matter, patent or copyright.
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In principle you are right but the difference is that copyright is easier to define than patents. Original work in a copyright can be shown readily while often Patents claim original work but it turns out that is was not original at all, or it was obvious or should have been obvious. Thus a patent troll can get someone to issue them a patent that they should not have been able to obtain under the rules of patents. Then they use the suspect patent to exhort money.
Dale