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Valve wins legal battle against patent troll Rothschild and associated companies
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this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2026
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What the fuck?
That guy doesnt actually invent anything. He just comes up with ideas and files?
80% of patent work is coming up with ideas and filing them. The remaining 20% is ensuring there's no prior art, prior patents, etc.
Besides, patent trolling is not completely negative. The silver lining is that the same system that allows this, also allows e.g. Sony to perpeetum own the patent for interactive TV ads that require the user to yell a word at the TV to ensure they're watching the ad. Sony owns the patent but never implemented it, nor did they license it to others.
Now imagine what would happen if you had to implement your patent into a commercial product or lose the rights to it...
The very idea of intellectual property is ludicrous and absurd. The concept of owning ideas is one of the most ridiculous notions that capitalism ever came up with. There are absolutely zero positive benefits to society when it comes to patents. They are the very reason people can’t afford lifesaving medicines and farmers can’t replant their own seeds. Anyone who owns a patent is a leech and should be hanged by the neck until dead.
This.
Even the original argument, that patents exists to reward inventors with a period of time where they have the sole ability to sell their product, is gone. Now patents are simply owned by the company or university and rarely the inventor or scientist, they're allowed to be renewed over and over so that they are effectively eternal.
It's a shit system designed to encourage rent seeking behaviors without the risk and cost of having to invent new things.
Patent trolling is completely negative. Patents themselves are mostly negative.