Comment Re:can't even keep patent troll jobs local? (Score 1) 138
I always thought that there was a difference between patent trolls and actual innovators; it depends on whether they put any effort into creating stuff. Apple has patents on a few innovations of their own, and patents on really obvious stuff that shouldn't have been granted a patent in the first place. A university (especially a public one like NCKU) is not as profit-driven as corporations (or so I believe). A patent troll exists solely by holding patents on stuff they did not invent themselves. By this metric, then, I believe neither are patent trolls.
(Disclaimer: I'm a student at NCKU, which could be skewing my judgment.)