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patent troll
noun
A person, company, etc. that holds and enforces patents in an aggressive and opportunistic manner, often with no intention of marketing or promoting the subject of the patent.
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Or patent troll.
WHAT would the country's "most notorious patent troll" advise a guy under attack from a patent troll?
Is that going to fix the patent troll problem?
But Mr Myhrvold denies any intention of becoming what Valley folk call a "patent troll".
Or, put more judiciously, a company that bears the outward appearance of a patent troll?
American inventor George Selden is frequently cited as an early example of a patent troll.
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Kind of like patent trolls.
Patent trolls are nothing new.
"Patent trolls have complex structures, with thousands of shell companies.
It is time to declare total war on patent trolls.
Lawsuits by patent trolls are hard to fight.
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