Patent trolling is when a small company/firm solely, only exists as a kind of legal container that currently owns … well, usually a broad array of all kinds of patents that they bought from some other person or company at some point.
They then go around and do nothing other than see who they can shakedown for money, via threatening all kinds of lawsuits, which would be extremely expensive and time consuming to fight, so most companies just fold and settle.
Nintendo suing Palworld over copyright and patents?
That’s not patent trolling.
Yes, the existence of patents and how IP law works is a complex and contentious topic, in general.
But… patent trolling?
It is a specific thing that occurs because of the current state of IP laws in the US, and basically everyone from any kind of relevant and related academic and/or legal background agrees that it is terrible and Congress should really revamp the laws to at least specifically fix it.
Sitting on a patent, not implementing it, while also not allowing others to implement it, is a form of patent trolling.
Hell I’d even go as far as to call what Qualcomm does with their 4G/5G patents, trolling (they basically offer to sell patent licensing but it’s generally much more expensive to get the license AND develop+manufacture your own modem with it than to buy modems from Qcom directly, which is essentially stifling any potential innovation on the modem market).
You don’t know what patent trolling is.
You are describing patent enforcement.
Patent trolling is when a small company/firm solely, only exists as a kind of legal container that currently owns … well, usually a broad array of all kinds of patents that they bought from some other person or company at some point.
They then go around and do nothing other than see who they can shakedown for money, via threatening all kinds of lawsuits, which would be extremely expensive and time consuming to fight, so most companies just fold and settle.
Nintendo suing Palworld over copyright and patents?
That’s not patent trolling.
Yes, the existence of patents and how IP law works is a complex and contentious topic, in general.
But… patent trolling?
It is a specific thing that occurs because of the current state of IP laws in the US, and basically everyone from any kind of relevant and related academic and/or legal background agrees that it is terrible and Congress should really revamp the laws to at least specifically fix it.
Patent and IP law are complicated.
Patent trolling is completely negative.
Sitting on a patent, not implementing it, while also not allowing others to implement it, is a form of patent trolling.
Hell I’d even go as far as to call what Qualcomm does with their 4G/5G patents, trolling (they basically offer to sell patent licensing but it’s generally much more expensive to get the license AND develop+manufacture your own modem with it than to buy modems from Qcom directly, which is essentially stifling any potential innovation on the modem market).