 Thread beginning with comment 471040 It's getting old... by
mrhasbean on Tue 26th Apr 2011 12:37 UTC Member since:  "The
MPEG-LA is led by a known patent troll"  Ok, lets knock this
crud on the head once and for all because you use it over and
over - maybe for Google rankings, who knows - but it's really
getting very old.  By your definition if a company buys patents
then uses said patents to extort (my choice of word but fits
your propaganda) money from those potentially infringing on
those patents, they are a patent troll because they didn't
invent the concept for which the patent was issued. That's
basically what you say in the article you always link. Well I
hate to break this to you but that means that just about every
major corporation out there who's ever bought a patent or indeed
bought out another company to acquire their patents for
financial gain, is a patent troll.  That's life - build a
bridge.  Oh wait ... unless ... maybe you're suggesting that as
long as they have one "legitimate" patent they