>>there's a distinction to be made between a non-practicing entity (patent troll) and a consortium of companies that pooled together to purchase patents
Its a semantic question. But my (soft) definition is a company that buys or registers patents, waits for them to be violated, then extracts licensing fees via legal threats or lawsuits. The non practicing pure trolls are just specialists.
Its a semantic question. But my (soft) definition is a company that buys or registers patents, waits for them to be violated, then extracts licensing fees via legal threats or lawsuits. The non practicing pure trolls are just specialists.