Legislative Agenda: 2015, The Year of Reform?

Analysis: While the general idea is to go after shell companies that exist only to shake down vulnerable, small businesses, which can't afford high legal expenses to defend themselves, for what is largely viewed as extortion, the question becomes: What is a troll?

Lyons notes that if any entity that sells a patent is defined as such, then a university or a research institute could fall under that heading. Reform legislation doesn't necessarily mean these quote/unquote patent holders will go away. When law and politics are fused, there are absolutely zero certainties.