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by zvpxdlk 3359 days ago
Why is there not more media coverage on that district in eastern texas that allows all these patent trolls to exist?
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John Oliver did a great segment on it a while back:

https://youtu.be/3bxcc3SM_KA

I don't know that it would ever be stated so explicitly, but at the end of the day there's absolutely nothing anybody can do about the EDTX courts without major legislation, so there's no news there.
Actually it's presently before the supreme court: http://www.scotusblog.com/2017/03/argument-analysis-justices... But the argument report doesn't look promising.
In this case the patent troll went to Australia