Patent holders that make stuff tend to dislike holders that don't.  They call them patent trolls.

Blawgletter has heard that juries don't share the anger.  They view patents as property and see misuse of it as bad, even if the owners bought patents solely to extract licensing fees and, if necessary, to sue for infringement.

But the Federal

Rube Goldberg Flyswatter
Flyswatter by Rube Goldberg.

You've heard about the genius whose incandescent idea for a new contraption wakes him in the hours before sunup.  You'll also recall Edison's cutesy statement that "[g]enius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration."

Both the burning thought that disturbs the inventor's slumber and the drudgery that produces the pre-dawn