Companies that use patents in their products (for example IBM), companies that don’t (for example Lodsys). This is done by a number of different types of companies. To collect money (for example Microsoft), to hinder competition (for example Apple). Patents are used and misused in a number of different ways. I was trying to explain what I consider the definition of a patent troll.

Your rhetorical example is irrelevant because we never were talking about hypothetical companies.īy continuing to claim relevance, you are implying that either the mentioned companies only abused one patent, or that their patent abuse is no worse than one patent one time. Therefore, your reply about a hypothetical company abusing a patent once does no apply to the very real companies that do exist and have abused more than one patent. However, the context was already set by Thom that the companies in question were the ones mentioned. You came up with some reply that they are not trolls, because if a company abused a patent once, they are “a company that abused a patent once”. Thom made some statement about Microsoft, Apple and a few others about them being patent trolls. I completely changed it because I realized you wouldn’t understand my point unless I spelt it out completely, and it seems you still don’t. You didn’t just edit it, you completely changed it.

You know it didn’t and that’s why you quickly changed your reply. That’s what you accuse me of and that’s not what happened. I did NOT state that Apple only once abused a patent.

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