Google takes on ’patent trolls’

'Patent trolls' are going straight for the jugular in their attacks on Google via an organised system of intellectual property litigation. These 'trolls' - offices or physical persons specialised in patent litigation - operate by purchasing patents, which they do not use, in order to oblige companies that provide goods and services to buy patent licences – even if this means going to court. According to a study carried out in 2012 by Colleen Chien, a law professor at Santa…