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Analog Worm: NTP no patent troll
January 10, 2006

Analog Worm defends BlackBerry nemesis NTP, which I criticize as a "patent troll" in my post below (scroll down). He agrees that patent trolls should be stopped but reserves the term for "true patent trolls such as SCO," which claims intellectual property ownership in some Linux software products from IBM and others.

The NPT case, Analog Worm says, is actually the unusual case of a small, worthy inventor finding the resources to defend his or her invention: "Usually, the large corporation wins by monetary exhaustion." He concludes, "Do we expect just the large corporations in the world to be the source of our innovation?" Read Analog Worm's complete post, and add your own comments.

Posted by Rick Nelson on January 10, 2006 | Comments (1)

February 5, 2006
In response to: Analog Worm: NTP no patent troll
JC commented:

NTP is worse than a patent troll since there is no merit whatsover to their patents. At least trolls typically have some arguable merit to the patent. What we have with NTP v. RIM now is a race to see if NTP can coerce RIM into paying a billion dollars before the USPTO can cancel the patents. The biggest losers in this may be the court system. Technically sophisticated people know there is no merit in the patents. The court findings to the contrary prove that the courts are incompetent, not that RIM is infringing.