Intel’s lawsuit takes aim at a new aspect of PAEs. That aspect is patent aggregation. Intel and Apple, two big-tech companies, are seeking a court ruling that would essentially hold that the very act of aggregating patents can give rise to antitrust violations. The implications of that could redound

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In a Banana Republic the Elites rule over a servile government that abets and supports, for kickbacks and bribes, the exploitation of the rest of society. Instead of Dole and United Fruit controlling Honduras, we now have Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google and other tech giants controlling Congress and the Executive...