Follow-up on possible good motives of the supertroll patent conglomerates.

It's assumed in the blogworld that IV is evil and that Nathan M. is public troll #1. I keep wondering in the back of my mind, what if he is up to good rather than no good.

Everybody agrees that there are serious kinks in the patent laws and that the USPTO is backlogged until Moshiach comes. ;) There IS a hole in the system regarding people being able to enforce patents they did not invent. This is one of the big holes IV is exploiting.

The thought is -- what if they're trying to gather enough political clout to force a change in the law? What if as the biggest potential troll in the world, they are able to eradicate all other trolls from the patent system? What if they are trying to bring justice to the system (in a socialistic kind of way which I don't quite understand or support) by bringing huge companies down to their knees?

There is a lot of money behind those patent conglomerate companies, and they're obviously doing what they do for some reason. G-d knows they own enough patents to cripple the patent litigation system forever with valid (not frivolous) lawsuits should they choose to. It would take a flick of a pen and we could say goodbye to the system as we know it.

How's that for an apocalyptic view of the patent litigation system and those who hold the true power of it? ;)