Most companies are reluctant to get the best return on their most valuable assets. … Being publicly branded a patent troll adds to the turmoil. Patent trolls are controversial not because of the destruction attributed to them, but because they strike at the heart of the complex relationship between innovation and commerce. The term has become synonymous with the unfair assertion of IP rights and extortion of damage payments.

I don’t believe Lindsay senses the satiric undercurrents beneath the machined ripples of Ballard’s prose.

The cannons were wheeled around to bear upon the advancing troops.

a blind alley