[jayzee]

In a perverse way I think that all the recent patent law-suits and general trolling is a good thing. The more egregious the behavior and the law-suits (lodsys, IV etc) the more attention it will get from the media till finally we will do something about it. I hope that the trolls unchecked greed will be their undoing.

[jeremyarussell]

The thing with greed is it never collapses on itself, it gathers and gathers like some sort of black hole until a single entity has all the money. See greed is something that drives someone to gain one of the few things that can allow them to continue their paths unchecked. My point being that I doubt hoping they just undo themselves is going to do anything, the defendants winning against odds and setting new patent precedents, and the people of these united states however, can do something. We need a way to justify what's really a patent infringement. I haven't the least bit idea on where to start, but I think that's the area to start in.

[btcoal]

A good place to start: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...

[jamesteow]

I think it's odd that the NPR story didn't touch upon the fact that IV is backed by some of the biggest players, like Microsoft, Apple, eBay, Google, to name a few.