Thomas Edison would have been a "Patent Troll"

Thomas Edison, Charles Goodyear, and Elias Howe Jr. were patent trolls.
Newspapers have reported a massive patent infringement campaign against individuals—almost 1,000 farmers were sued for patent infringement in just one courthouse in a single year! Even worse, the plaintiff is not a competing farmer or manufacturer; instead, it merely bought the patent rights and is now asserting them against unsophisticated...