The Evolution of Software Licensing Trolls: Are Customers Losing Control?
A “software licensing troll” is a term coined by Michael Corey and Dean Bolton, cofounder and chief architect of LicenseFortress, in collaboration with Art Beeman and Joel Muchmore of Beeman and Muchmore. We recognized it as the natural evolution of the “patent troll”—a concept that emerged in the 1990s. A patent troll is a business or entity that acquires patents—often vague or overly broad—and…
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