SAP, Google, Dropbox, others band together to fight patent trolls

[Jesse damato]

Self-dubbed as the LOT (License on Transfer) Network, the slowly-but-surely growing consortium aims to reduce the risk of and litigation itself related to "patent privateering."

Some of the members of the LOT Network (namely Google) as well as the White House, among others, have previously railed against the financial and creative dangers presented by the practice that has become commonly referred to as patent trolling.