Another paste of a comment from the TechDirt article on “New Patent Buying Firm Swears It’ll Never Litigate Over Its Patents”
Re: Mafia – Nov 25th, 2008 @ 1:29pm
There is no reason that those looking for patent protection have to pay the equivalent of a mafia in order to have protection from would-be infringers. The laws themselves should provide enough patent protection to the inventors, but they don’t in their current form.