[halfdan]

Patent trolls rarely kill a company. The want to settle pre-trial so they usually want some low (relatively speaking) $$$ amount. The gains from patented and protected research still far outweigh the risk of potentially paying a patent troll a few 100k.

[tlocke]

True, I should have put better. Maybe, 'Why would a company invest in research if a patent troll could come along and extort money from them from day one?'