lawyers like paten troll rob burma.ompany that he helped start manage to get ahold of a patent on sending any medical image of the internet. the u.s. patent office gives them out liberally. his firm then sued medical imaging companies. the result, an mit study concluded that after the companies were sued innovations stops completely. they stopped inventing things. you kill innovation. >> actually, i think we do just the opposite. i think we give people incentive to innovate. a lot of invention still come from garages and basements and people that put time and effort into inventing somethi. we assist those people in asserting their patents. in essence we are giving them the samebility that the big companies have when they patton something. john: how many of these have you filed? >> my current company -- john: both your old and new. >> between 50 and 100. john: and these people actually invented something unique? did not discover fund stuff that was at the office? >> we look at them cefully. we only take on patents tt we