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Commentary: McLean’s most important decision

American Shipper Magazine

Monday, November 19, 2012

It’s not unusual to find stories in the financial pages about companies and individuals buying up portfolios of patents — often related to software — just to become “patent trolls,” or defend themselves from such trolls who have no intention of ever creating a product themselves, but aggressively seeking to shake down businesses for supposed patent violations. So it was interesting to hear Ron Katims, a long-time executive of both Sea-Land Service and Navieras De Puerto Rico, say a...

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