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Perhaps off-topic (but that's kind of the point I'm getting at): The image and caption displayed alongside the article doesn't appear to have anything directly to do with the article, does it? Here's the caption:

> The application icons of Facebook, Twitter, and Google are displayed on an iPhone next to an earphone set in this illustration photo taken in Berlin, June 17, 2013. *

I've read the article twice. I can tangentially see the use of a general tech photo as the article talks about tech companies being targeted by patent trolls. If that were the case, however, I would expect the caption to tie the two together, something like "Patent trolls often file suit against tech companies such as Apple, Google, Twitter, and Facebook in sympathetic jurisdictions." Including the earphone set just makes it even more weird.

* Another meta tidbit: The caption is part of the image in the mobile version. The web version (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-kraft-heinz-idUS...) has the caption as text.





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