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by toadkick 5500 days ago
They didn't, they licensed the patents from Intellectual Ventures years ago. Lodsys acquired the patents after the fact.
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SwellJoe 5500 days ago
Intellectual Ventures is also a patent troll. It's just higher profile and has people involved that had some level of existing respectability at some point in the past.
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