Patent Trolling - Dive Into the Data

Researchers at Harvard and the University of Texas have published the first analysis of the litigation behavior of NPEs (full text of study here).  They also draw some correlations between NPE suits and the subsequent behavior of the defendants.

It's a detailed analysis, that's going to take some time to go through, but from my quick skim through the article I can provide you with a short summary:  trolls bad.

More later.