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by nickysielicki 4131 days ago
No surprise there, universities are patent trolls and they stand to lose from it. Fuck them. I'm a student at UW-Madison. WARF stands for Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, and they're responsible for whoring out patents held by the school.

WARF was ranked the 5th worst patent troll by business insider in 2012. [1]

[1]: http://www.businessinsider.com/biggest-patent-holding-compan...