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so..

patent laws are so broken that patent trolls are everywhere suing startups to get $ from them.

google now has a business that can directly benefit from such increasing number of patent trolls.

sounds not very inspiring to me.

who is always on the losing side? average small companies. who is screwing the economy & innovation and show no sign of change? governments who refuse to actually reform such a 100+ years old broken system.

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This service is not for defending against non-practicing entities - but to defend against patent suits from large enterprises that the startups might be competing against (e.g. Microsoft, Facebook, Samsung, etc) - not that Microsoft et al. engage in that kind of warfare against small-fry, but it's plausible.

IBM, Microsoft, et al. certainly throw their patent portfolio weight at small companies when it suits them.

For example, they may bring out their patents to force a lower valuation when acquiring companies.

The problem, is not the law, the problem is the bureau.

They keep attributing patents that are obvious and meaningless.

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