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Since Microsoft, Apple cartel bought the Nortel patents aren't they exactly behaving like patent trolls ( Intellectual Ventures ) in this context? You have to be wilfully ignorant not to see the similarity.

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I would think not having used an acquired patent in offensive litigation is the salient dissimilarity.

One would have to be willfully ignorant not to see that.

Doesn't everyone expect that the acquired patents are going to be used against Android? Doesn't the makeup of the winning consortium argue for that interpretation?

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