Ahhh, patent trolls. You know, those companies that do nothing except sue the pants off everyone else for patent infringement and reap the royalties rewards when they win (think CentreOne, NTP and so on). Well, a now-former Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) executive has underwritten a study aimed at determining who’s to blame for the dozens of patent suits that have hit U.S. court dockets in the past 10 years.
The funny part is that this former executive’s company makes its money by, you guessed it, collecting patents. The firm has yet to assert any of its rights in court, however.
Still, if the study lives up to the hype, it will be interesting to see where many of these complaints originate, and from whom.