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Have you searched the US Court Databases?
As an attorney - I have. Check out lexisnexis for case law. There are hundreds of cases of US owners of patents suing and litigating against international infringers... literally hundreds.
Also, you are totally discrediting the monopolies that run the world and how they have prevented other companies from entering their markets via other aggressive methods or patent purchasing...
Buying and litigating patents is A LOT of work.
I am not supporting them - but you can't discredit their work just because you don't believe in what they legally are entitled to do.
I don't support big oil or old-school-energy monopolies - but that doesn't mean I discredit what they do.
"American patent trolls don't seem..." where did you pull that out of... sounds pretty but you got nothing to back up that statement.
Love it or not - it is the rules of the game. Someone came up with the idea before you and they registered that idea before you. Vague or not - they had the foresight - and they are indeed entitled to being proprietary.
If you do not like it - challenge it. If you can not afford to challenge it - negotiate for 'fair-use'.
If you think otherwise - you are an amateur.
It is 100% necessary - and though there might be casualties such as what is going on here - if we did not have Intellectual Property Rights - we would be at a disadvantage.
My suggestion is anyone being sued connect with the individual suing them and work out terms - everything is negotiable. Why not cut the owners of the patents in on a % of revenues?