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An expert hired by patent attorney and inventor Dinesh Agarwal says Twitter owes him between $11 million and $41 million in royalties. Ten years ago, Agarwal invented an online interactive system for following famous people but never developed it commercially. He alleges Twitter used his idea to develop a similar interactive program on its website last year.
As much as I disdain Twitter and its tittering twits, I must say this is absurd.
The plaintiff fits the absolute definition of a patent troll and illustrates why software patents (which are patents on ideas, as opposed to a copyright on code, since code is a real thing) are a bad idea.
