Nathan Myhrvold's patent-trolling firm (backed by Microsoft) scoops Transmeta's patents

Microsoft extorts $120 Million out of rival Intuit, using the patent troll it is grooming

Dave Garrod, a lawyer who leads patent reform group PubPat's initiative against false marking, is now playing the part of the patent troll. He filed a patent infringement lawsuit against a number of tech companies, including a small Texas software company that went out of business years ago.

New examples of patent trolls and patent boosters (possibly even lobbyists) putting a form of patent tax on the de facto universal platform which is free Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures, which is funded and made with Microsoft’s investments (Myhrvold is Microsoft’s former CTO), is expanding the pyramid scheme by signing a patent deal with HTC. The Register says:

The two companies in red defended themselves against a Microsoft-associated patent troll, but details about the trial remain limited even after its conclusion; no statement from Novell yet

A former Microsoft executive, who became a patent troll, is being backed by his old boss

Lots of news about patents, including the problems in Europe and Microsoft's patent troll of choice.

"Highly confidential" memo from Microsoft's current patent troll shows Microsoft worrying about "Linux" even over a decade ago

Correspondence between Jim Gray (now deceased) and Nathan Myhrvold (now the world's biggest patent troll) reveals Microsoft's reasons for disdain for GNU/Linux in 1998