Even if patent trolls (er, um, I mean ‘non-practicing entities’ or ‘members of the Patent Holding Company community’) were a protected class, how would calling somebody one be a ‘hate crime’? For US purposes, aren’t those only certain (otherwise criminal in themselves) acts motivated by somebody’s membership or suspected membership in a protected class?
Patent trolls Lumen View: "Calling us patent trolls is a hate crime, now you owe us even more money"
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