The original version of this report was published on the biweekly IP briefing Skilled in the Art.

Mike Masnick’s story at Techdirt about a Fortress Investment Group shell using Theranos-developed patents to sue a diagnostics company that’s working on a COVID-19 test created a sensation Monday, and rightly so. If you wanted to create the most infuriating possible “patent troll” narrative, this one would be hard to top.