> They sit around a room together, dreaming up new ideas for inventions that might become lucrative patents — while a team of lawyers records the freewheeling conversations to document every iota of potential intellectual property
How is that not patent trolling? And worse, how is that supposed to aid or speed up innovation in any conceivable way?!
When you start typing "myhrvold" in google, "myhrvold patent troll" comes up very prominently. (For me it is #3.)