If you blinked, you might have missed President Obama's flyby support in his State of the Union for legislation to stop abusive patent troll practices. It amounted to one sentence early in the speech:
"And let's pass a patent reform bill that allows our businesses to stay focused on innovation, not costly, needless litigation," Obama said Tuesday night.
That was it. Although Obama has called for patent reform before—and even passed executive actions—the one sentence in the high-profile address got a lot of folks in Washington working on the issue revved up, eliciting longer statements than the one Obama made in his speech.
"The days of patent trolls taking $80 billion a year out of our economy, and terrorizing innovative and hard-working businesses, are numbered.
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