Patent trolls are a growing challenge for the software industry. And the Linux Foundation has launched a large campaign to snuff them out. Attendees at the annual cloud-native software developers ...

Patent trolls — a term known more among geeks than the general public — are about to be the target of a national ad campaign. Beginning Friday, a group of retail trade organizations is launching a ...

(Reuters) - For two decades, companies that buy software patents to sue technology giants have been the scourge of Silicon Valley. Reviled as patent trolls, they have attacked everything from Google's ...