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		eru on July 13, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Patent troll Lodsys now after apps with 'More Apps... Yes. Though of course, if a big company that was actually making things, bought a patent troll and just let the get on with their business, I'd still be inclined to call the new subsidiary a patent troll.

cube13 on July 13, 2011 [–]

This is true. I probably should have said "companies that make products related to their patents cannot be patent trolls".

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