Google,?along with?BlackBerry, EarthLink and Red Hat?today appealed to the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice to take stronger action against companies like Lodsys, Intellectual Ventures, and other "patent assertion entities" (aka patent trolls or so-called patent privateers) -- companies they believe abuse patents for financial gain and are an increasing detriment to the technology industry, costing U.S. companies alone nearly $30 billion in 2011, "and?$80 billion when accounting for all?costs ? direct and indirect."Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/Zheq8qdQC18/
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