PTSC is on the bubble relative to being a "troll" because they never made anything. However, no matter what opinion one might hold of the folks there, TPL did (or so it appears) pay Moore and his crew to design and prototype multicore processor chips and shared licensing fees with Moore (though there seems to be substantial disagreement as too whether or not the distribution was sufficient and fair.)

Thus, (at least in my opinion) TPL cannot really be called a "troll". The reverse engineering they did was performed to see who needed to pay up for thier transgressions. Faced with the facts and evidence of infringement, it appears that those whose fingerprints were found on the misappropriated technology decided to request reexaminations and later to countersue.

Today we stand here waiting for justice to remove its blindfold and show its beneficent face to look at the facts and make judgement with them rather than the tortured legal wranglings we have seen for the last several years. Sadly (some would say fortunately) we are a nation of law and not necessarily one of justice...

GLTA