PATENT TROLL: MPHJ Exposed: The Real Dirt on the Notorious Scanner Troll.

MPHJ owns a handful of patents, which it claims covers the basic technology for scanning documents to email. You read that right—simply scanning documents to email. . . .

Think, for a second, about the proposition that one party can claim that its patents (in this case five—four of which come from the same family) tie up every American business that uses basic scanning technology. Clearly, the patent system isn’t working. The patents are too broad and vague, and there is no evidence that they somehow advanced scanning technology. And when these patents end up in the hands of parties like MPHJ, they become tools for abuse.