A patent troll, or
non-practicing entity, defined by Wikipedia is a person or company who enforces
patent rights against accused infringers in an attempt to collect licensing
fees. The person does not manufacture or supply services with regard to those
patents under question. Or in other words, a non-practicing entity holds a
patent for a product or process, but has no intention of developing it. A
patent troll, discussed below, is a type of non-practicing entity.
Essentially, a patent troll
attempts to weaponize patents by purchasing cheap broad patents and threatening
litigation upon those that infringe their patents. These threats include sever
legal action, often time in court unless a hefty licensing fee is paid for
infringing the patent.
I believe one of the keys to patent
trolling is how broad and vague most of the NPE patents are. Due to the
ambiguity of these patents, NPE’s can find most companies vulnerable,
especially those small startups.
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