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March 5, 2012 05:55 pm GMT

Troll Fighters: Article One Partners Raises $7M For Its Patent Research Platform

GlobeYou won't have to go far in Silicon Valley to find someone who will tell you that the patent situation in the tech industry is a mess. While trouble has been brewing for a decade, the last year has been marked by a continuous stream of litigation, and some might say it's beginning to take its toll on innovation. Take Yahoo's recent threats to Facebook, for example. Back in September, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt warned that "overbroad patents will slow" the progress of the software industry, saying that the current state of patents in the U.S. was "terrible."

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