Patent Holding Company
Patent holding companies are companies set up to administer, consolidate and license patents or otherwise enforce patent rights, such as through litigation. Some patent holding companies have been characterized pejoratively as patent trolls due to aggressive enforcement of their patent rights through litigation.
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