|how bureaucracies expand regardless of the productivity, and how inefficient work expands to fill the time available for its completion
|how bureaucracies expand regardless of the productivity, and how inefficient work expands to fill the time available for its completion
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|patent troll
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|2001
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|a company that obtains or buys up patents for the sole purpose of asserting infringement claims, and without any intention of actually manufacturing the invention; the term was first coined by Peter Detkin, in-house counsel to Intel