If you're suing IBM, maybe. But I don't see how the majority of patent trolls that seem to be suing small businesses for things like using a printer, scanner, fax combo they bought at Office Depot is helping anyone out.
Its about identifying symptoms, not being an apologist
okay so you’re living paycheck to paycheck and took the risk of filing your patent with the attorney for $10,000 and arguing with the patent office a couple times for another $10,000
now you need to monetize it and other people did the thing you described after you described it
everyone on the internet says “hm you should have launched a startup using more capital and more risk, doing that one specific thing, otherwise you are just a troll!”
The argument is that society would be better off the the inventor licensed (or sold outright) to a company that will actually use the patent. Instead of to a NPE that exists only to sue.
If an inventor just wants to sit on a patent and not produce anything based on it, they should be forced to (eventually, though I have no idea what timeframe would be optimal) release their rights.
