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Not quite, although it's obviously important to start crippling the supply side of the troll equation.

There are 2 million patents in force in the US alone. Even if you began choking off the stream of inbound patents, you'd have one to two decades of patent trolling left (and most likely they'd get drastically more aggressive in a last ditch feeding frenzy, knowing there aren't as many meals coming in the future).




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