Podcast: When Patents Attack! - This American Life (NPR)

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"Why would a company rent an office in a tiny town in East Texas, put a nameplate on the door, and leave it completely empty for a year? The answer involves a controversial billionaire physicist in Seattle, a 40 pound cookbook, and a war waging right now, all across the software and tech industries." This is the story of current state of the U.S. patent system and the new business models it has created. While the story if not specifically about geospatial patents, this goes no in our world, too.