---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <[email protected]> Date: Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 10:03 PM Subject: "Patent Trolls Cost The Economy Half A Trillion Dollars" To: [email protected] http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110919/17065416018/patent-trolls-cost-eco... excerpts : new research suggesting that patent trolls evaporated half a trillion dollars in wealth<http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110804/02572815385/planet-money-continues-to-show-how-damaging-software-patents-are-to-innovation.shtml> . The Private and Social Costs of Patent Trolls<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1930272> . Over the last four years, the total decimation of value from patent troll cases has averaged over $80 billion per year. over $320 billion of that $500 billion came in just the last four years. -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens