Trolls, as any three-year-old can tell you, lurk underneath structures they didn’t build and pop up at unexpected moments to get in the way and make unreasonable demands. And “patent trolls”? They do much the same thing, nosing around patent systems and buying up intellectual property, often of questionable quality, and using it to extort money from genuinely innovative companies by threatening protracted and expensive legal action.
随便一个三岁小孩儿都能告诉你，巨魔(Troll)总是潜伏在别人盖的建筑物下面，然后突然出现横加阻拦，并提出不合理的要求。那么“专利魔鬼”(Patent Troll)呢？他们的性质基本相同——在专利制度中逡巡，伺机买断往往质量存在问题的专利，并以旷日持久、费用高昂的法律诉讼相威胁，向那些真正创新的公司榨取钱财。
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