NPEs are often portrayed as predatory and opportunistic manipulators of intellectual property. But to do so is to confuse the means with the end . . . While NPEs’ willingness to purchase patents has helped develop a much-needed market for otherwise illiquid assets – a highly desirable end for any economic activity – the NPEs’ means of doing so is highly inefficient . . . The source of that inefficiency, of course, is the legal system . . . A more efficient way to create liquidity for patent owners is to remove the need for legal filings, discovery, assertion, and/or trial from the process . . . Aggregators purchasing patents defensively can thus offer fair-market value to inventors without a back-end payment based on litigation that is risky and costly for both plaintiff and defendant.
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