Halliburton attempts to patent patent-trolling

Paul Raven @ 11-11-2008

You’ve heard of patent-trolling, right? The process whereby one business finds another company that has protected an invention as a trade secret, then reverse engineers that secret, patents it and sues the original inventors?

Well, those lovely folk at Halliburton have attempted to patent that patent-trolling process. This is surely where zen, irony and corporate chutzpah meet.

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