Google Promotes Patent Trolls

Asa Mathat writing for some publication on Google's recent patent woes:

In attempting to fend off Apple and Microsoft’s suits against Motorola Mobility and advancing its own patent litigation against both companies, Google, which is facing a lot of regulatory scrutiny in the U.S. and abroad over what some allege is abuse of SEPs, has been arguing that proprietary non-standardized technologies that become ubiquitous due to their popularity with consumers should be considered de facto standards.

What Google's doing here is encouraging the filing of more patents. Phantom patents. Companies will need to patent something, anything, whether they ever intend to make it or not just so that if the day should come that they make something needing the technology or process described in the patent they have it in their portfolio, ready to go. If, like Apple, a company values secrecy or showmanship (or both) they will be rendered unable to participate in the tech landscape in that way without filing a bazillionty fake/misleading patents or setting up shell corporations to do the same thing.

In short, Google is promoting patent-trollism.