Bill Gates still helping known patent trolls obtain more patents

Posted by BernardSwiss on Aug 15, 2013 4:12 PM EDT
Ars Technica; By Jon Brodkin
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Gates has been prolific in filing patent applications over the past few years, mostly through a partnership with friends at Intellectual Ventures (IV). That's one of the world's largest patent holding companies, typically described as a patent troll because of its practice of acquiring patents and using them to file lawsuits (notably against Motorola), despite not using the patents to make technology of its own.

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