Non-Practicing Entity. A broad term associated with trolls but now disfavored because it includes universities and legitimate technology developers that seek to license technology in advance rather than after a producing company has independently developed it.
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Sen. Coons, RESTORE This Bill to the Shelf
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This post initially appeared on Unified Patents’ News and Views Blog. More analysis is available here.
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