Microsoft's Patent Trolls Are Alive and Well, Seeding Destruction Among Microsoft's Competition | Linux Today

Microsoft’s Patent Trolls Are Alive and Well, Seeding Destruction Among Microsoft’s Competition

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Roy Schestowitz
Oct 7, 2018

Richard Lloyd shows that Intellectual Ventures continues to distribute its patents, sometimes to patent trolls from Texas (e.g. Dominion Harbor) and sometimes to others; Finjan, another Microsoft-funded troll, is fighting to salvage its software patents while suing Microsoft’s rivals in the security space

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Roy Schestowitz

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