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.
隨便一個三歲小孩兒都能告訴你，巨魔(Troll)總是潛伏在別人蓋的建築物下面，然後突然出現橫加阻攔，並提出不合理的要求。那麼「專利魔鬼」(Patent Troll)呢？他們的性質基本相同——在專利制度中逡巡，伺機買斷往往質量存在問題的專利，並以曠日持久、費用高昂的法律訴訟相威脅，向那些真正創新的公司榨取錢財。
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