Dec 23, 2011 ... A patent troll called Mount Hamilton Partners has filed two separate patent infringement lawsuits against daily deals juggernaut Groupon and ...

Dec 9, 2011 ... And now, for some reason, it has given valuable patents to a patent troll — which is using them to sue many of the top technology companies in ...

Aug 19, 2011 ... And now, for some reason, it has given valuable patents to a patent troll — which is using them to sue many of the top technology companies in ...

Jul 28, 2010 ... Erick Schonfeld is a technology journalist and the former Editor in Chief of TechCrunch. At TechCrunch, he oversaw the editorial content of the ...

Apr 27, 2012 ... In the past few months, Facebook's patent portfolio has grown exponentially as a result of acquisitions of patent portfolios from IBM and ...

Jan 13, 2012 ... Here we go again with "patent troll". It's just c-a-p-i-t-a-l-i-s-m. You don't call private equity or venure capital firms "equity trolls", do you?

Jul 26, 2011 ... After slapping Google and PayPal with patent lawsuits, patent troll Purple Leaf is going after Amazon, accusing the e-commerce giant of ...

Aug 10, 2011 ... Apparently, when the patent troll realized this was the case, they asked for Fark's best offer, says the company via a post on its website today.

Nov 14, 2011 ... This morning, however, a company under attack by patent trolls decided to take its rant public. Pro Softnet Corporation, the company behind ...

Jun 3, 2011 ... A patent troll called Kootol Software has put Twitter on alert. The 'company', which sports a corporate logo (and name) that is suspiciously ...

Sep 2, 2011 ... Self-proclaimed “technology innovation and licensing company” WiLAN, billed as a notorious patent troll by most anyone else (and often, much ...

Mar 7, 2012 ... TEC, for lack of a better term, is a licensing company, and for lack of a better epithet, it's a patent troll. Rather than make anything, the company ...

Mar 13, 2012 ... Yahoo reared its patent troll head this week, and it's not just Facebook that has reason to be worried — at least, judging by the extremely broad ...

May 17, 2011 ... Patent trolling is often a lucrative hobby for many companies that have fallen into hard times. Like the junkies they are, the trolls will spin all ...

Oct 19, 2010 ... Patent troll extraordinaire NTP Inc. has already sued just about everyone in the mobile industry (famously Research In Motion but also Apple, ...

Feb 27, 2012 ... Though dastardly opportunistic, this patent trolling could produce a big windfall for Yahoo's investors. Facebook tells me it was blindsided, ...

May 5, 2012 ... Nathan Myhrvold, ex-MSFT CTO And Patent Powerbroker, Gobbles Up A ... different spin to a man many commonly think of as a patent troll.

Oct 26, 2011 ... EasyWeb Innovations, hereafter referred to as 'EasyWeb' or, alternatively, 'some obscure patent troll looking to score coin by suing companies ...

Mar 5, 2012 ... You won't have to go far in Silicon Valley to find someone who will tell you that the patent situation in the tech industry is a mess. While trouble ...

Classic patent troll SCO sells mobile assets. John Biggs. Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010. Comments. View Staff Page. Biggs is the East Cost Editor of TechCrunch.