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The cause of the lawsuit is not that we are patent trolls. The cause of the lawsuit is that these defendants used our patented technology to make over $1.5 billion in revenue.

Larry Day

I think patent trolls are abusing the system.

Lamar Smith

Tolkien reintroduced the world of fairy tale to a new audience. It was a very traditional image of fairy tale -- elves, dwarves, trolls, dragons, wizards. Those have all come out of fairy tales. But Tolkien put the whole thing on the map, ... A lot of that stuff is traditional material that he has codified and rationalized in a kind of 20th-century way.

Tom Shippey

Aside from the mythology involved, one way to look at the troll situation is that you have 'bad patent trolls,' on the one hand, and 'bad patent thieves,' on the other.

Dale Carlson

Five years ago, there probably wasn't a tech CEO worrying about patents. But, as these people [trolls] acquire portfolios of patents, there's been an explosion of cease and desist letters and actual litigation.

Emery Simon