@BorisBarbour I suspect it's more probable that it was the Americans that contacted the fund with an offer, this seems like too energetic an effort to be created by something linked to the French state...
I wasn't thinking the troll was set up by the French, but I was lamenting the tawdriness of a state-funded agency being reduced to supplying patent trolls.
@tobychev
I wasn't thinking the troll was set up by the French, but I was lamenting the tawdriness of a state-funded agency being reduced to supplying patent trolls.