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Ep. 2145 Does Intellectual Property Exist?

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Patent Trolls and the Problems With the Patent System

You've talked a little bit about so called patent trolls and the problems with patent trolls. But that, you say, the patent ttrol thing is almost a distraction because the whole system is itself the problem. The real patent problem is not from bad patents. Is from good patents. And it's not from patent rolls. It's from people that are competitors who 're going to seek an injunction ordering you not to shut down their product' You kow, it's that old thing: we have to fight patent abuse in the broken IP system rather than just trying to get rid of it altogether.

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