[karmajunkie]

I think its a troll.

"Apparently, the answer is that patent trolls do not manufacture the technology that is embodied by the patents that they seek to enforce."

This is a strawman. The issue isn't that patent trolls are generally NPE's. The issue is that they seek to leverage dubious and obvious patents that never should have been granted in the first place. By capitalizing on the overburdened USPTO's tendency to grant patents by default, they are retarding innovation in the industry and leeching profits off companies who are doing nothing but implementing obvious solutions to problems.