Trolls or Toll-Takers: Do Intellectual Property Non-Practicing Entities Add Value to Society?

Abstract

There are few areas of patent law more contentious than the dispute over the social utility of “non-practicing entities,” or (if you will excuse the expression) “patent trolls.” Whether non-practicing entities add value to society is a topic of much debate, and the focus of the 2015 Chapman Law Review Symposium.

Keywords: introduction, Chapman Law Review Symposium, intellectual property, patent troll