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There's a world of difference, and in fact Johnson's case has a happy ending compared to the hundreds of honest inventors who lost everything in legal battles against the conglomerates that stole their ideas and made billions.

Check the inventor of the FM radio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Howard_Armstrong

Was he a patent troll too?



if anyone hasn't seen it, the movie flash of genius is a great story about the patent battles of the guy who invented intermittent windscreen wiper.




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