SparkFun Hooks a Patent Troll - News - SparkFun Electronics
Any long-time SparkFun reader may know that we really enjoy writing about the whacking legal entanglements we've experienced, whether it’s cease-and-desist letters from Sparc International, tossing out 4,000 DMMs, or dealing with counterfeit ICs. Unfortunately, now it’s time we talk about patent trolls. Since a few of my international friends looked at me funny when I mentioned it, a patent troll is a company that is specifically set up to purchase the rights to a handful of patents and then sue anyone they feel they can get money from. Patent trolls are Americans that are destroying Am...
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