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Correction to this articleLANGUAGE laws may protect minority rights or infringe them.

In private, some executives accuse Mr Allen of behaving like a "patent troll"—a name given to firms that buy up patents solely in order to squeeze money out of companies that allegedly infringe them.

But that did not stop him from suing car manufacturers for infringing on his "hard-earned" patent, forcing them to pay him royalties.Although some patent portfolio managers, such as Intellectual Ventures, generate many of their own inventions, many others simply acquire patents and make money by suing firms that infringe them.

Trolls (known in the legal world as "patent assertion entities" or "non-practicing entities") exist solely to buy obscure patents, not to make anything, but to bully other firms that allegedly infringe them into paying a settlement fee, or face the punitive cost of litigation.

The state may thus have a legitimate role to play in promoting the social conditions that enable individuals to exercise their rights in meaningful ways, and in regulating such activities of non-governmental agents or groups as may serve significantly to infringe them.

It cannot be right to impose a duty upon public authorities to comply with air pollution standards, while at the same time giving the automotive industry the green light to infringe them.

What infringed them?

It found that Kearns' patents were valid and that Ford had infringed them.

He wrote that the patents were valid, but that the company had not proved that Apple had infringed them.

These are firms that buy up patents, not to turn them into products but solely to sue other firms that may have infringed them.

But in April 2011 a federal judge overturned the verdict, even while upholding the Mirror Worlds patents, ruling that Apple had not infringed them and should pay nothing.