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Patent troll claims it invented the Mobile App market
Goes after developers who write them
A patent troll claims it invented the idea of the mobile app and is threatening every developer that ever wrote one with an East Texas lawsuit.
![Qualcomm will not break up](/media/k2/items/cache/47f367a135182d6f20ccfad18d43a891_Generic.jpg)
Qualcomm will not break up
Does not want to be a patent troll when it grows up
Qualcomm has decided that it is not in its best interested to flog off its chipmaking business and stick to becoming a patent troll.
![Move to ban East-Texas courts from patent disputes](/media/k2/items/cache/6b7d00482fb39a2027b88345ad374643_Generic.jpg)
Move to ban East-Texas courts from patent disputes
EFF in troll beating measure
In a cunning plan to defeat patent and copyright trolls, the EFF is trying to get the use of East Texas courts banned for those sorts of cases.
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Microsoft loses InterDigital patent battle
But will not be banned
Software giant Microsoft has lost a potentially costly patent battle against "patent holding outfit" InterDigital.
Top sci-fi writer is a troll
Career in doubt
Microsoft sues Google
More patent trollage
US Government researcher worried about patent trolls
Sign that Congress might actually wake up
Patent trolls cost US companies $29 billion in 2011
Study reveals
Nokia snaps back at Google
Android phones have major patent issues
Microsoft will not be a patent troll
Will be nice on international standards