[impimp]

It seems you are forgetting many people in your analysis. The most important of which seems to be the original holder of the patent who receives money from the troll. Those people are legitimately helped by the troll.

[Olog-hai]

The troll is the patent holder, not a broker or lawyer for patent holders. The only thing the trolls do is jam up the legal system by threatening lawsuits in exchange for exorbitant licensing fees. The original patent holder gets nothing except the meager sum that the troll paid for the patent—since his rights to the patent are gone. Capisce? They would not have earned the moniker "trolls" otherwise.

[Nervous Tick]

>> The most important of which seems to be the original holder of the patent who receives money from the troll.

You really haven’t the faintest idea how this system works — do you.