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That would likely have the unintended consequence of spinning off a lot of new non-practicing entities with a large number of low-value patents in their portfolios.

Are you sure that's what you want? Those companies are more commonly known as "patent trolls".



The optimist in me says that if you make the problem bad enough, we might actually get around to fixing it. Or, maybe instead of NPEs, it will be Native American tribes.

On second thought, let’s fix antitrust legislation and enforcement.




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