> Do you seriously want to live in such an atmosphere?
Certainly. What these people are doing is effectively extortion and fraud; there should be a legal framework in which such abuses can be identified as such and treated accordingly.
The "IP" in question is not valid; it is predicated upon a lie. The lie is that the patented idea is a significant new invention without prior art. The trolls know this and exploit it by looking for obvious implementations of everyday things that could conceivably land within the language of a patent, which is a patent of specifically this type which they specifically acquired for the purpose of trolling.
Certainly. What these people are doing is effectively extortion and fraud; there should be a legal framework in which such abuses can be identified as such and treated accordingly.
The "IP" in question is not valid; it is predicated upon a lie. The lie is that the patented idea is a significant new invention without prior art. The trolls know this and exploit it by looking for obvious implementations of everyday things that could conceivably land within the language of a patent, which is a patent of specifically this type which they specifically acquired for the purpose of trolling.