"I think you'd find almost anyone who stands up to their patent rights has been called a patent troll."

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/07/26/138576167/when-patents-attack

"'We're at a point in the state of intellectual property where existing patents probably cover every behavior that's happening on the Internet or our mobile phones today,' says Chris Sacca, the venture capitalist. '[T]he average Silicon Valley start-up or even medium sized company, no matter how truly innovative they are, I have no doubt that aspects of what they're doing violate patents right now. And that's what's fundamentally broken about this system right now.'"