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Apple is now banned from selling its latest Apple Watches in the US
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They kept provisional filings on hold for over 15 years, released their own product without filing for the actual patent, and only did so after a competitor announced their own product.
If you don't want to call it "trolling", what do you call "abusing the patent process to keep competitors unaware of pending patents that can be used against them retroactively"? What would be a shorter word for that?