When we wanted to get to the bottom of this latest example in a long line of arguably questionablepatent litigation, we phoned up Julie Samuels, a staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation who has also been designated the organization's Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents.
To be sure, we are plagued by a new species of patent litigant these days, the so-called patent troll, who buys up questionable patents in hopes of extracting payments from deep-pocketed companies eager to avoid the expense of litigation.