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Patent troll

Rob Beschizza at 5:20 am Mon, Jul 2, 2012

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Over the River

As the legal copyright holder of the doll known as “Troll” I must insist…

Happy July!
Ambiguity

Makes more sense in the context of the full patent.

It’s a lure. I wish there really were troll lures.
- http://twitter.com/metal_max Max Allan
  
  I like “FIG. 6″.
  I think there are troll lures, someone has certainly gone to a lot of effort to patent one anyway, I can’t believe they wouldn’t then make some.
  Myself, I would have thought it more effective to have troll food on the lure, rather than another troll, but maybe they are cannibalistic.
- RedShirt77
  
  I was going say, 1997? All makes sense now.
  
  Also these acre clearly troll patents and not patent trolls.
pjcamp

Patent troll got no pants.