Is "patent hooligan" true or false?

Patent troll, also known as patent cockroach and patent Chu Ao, corresponds to English, and refers to those companies that have no substantive business and mainly rely on taking the initiative to initiate patent infringement lawsuits to survive. Because there is no physical business, it is also called NPE (non-practicing entity) internationally. Intelligent enterprise, Interdigital, Acacai, etc. Are famous among them.

There is another behavior in China, which is also a kind of "patent hooligan", that is, enterprises do not innovate for a long time, but confidently use other people's innovations, patents and other knowledge production fields to obtain extremely low costs and win rapid development. This behavior is particularly prevalent in the mobile phone industry, and some organizations and individuals even encourage individual domestic mobile phone companies not to pay related fees to enterprises with innovative patents and intellectual property rights. In fact, these behaviors are seriously contrary to the industrial policies such as innovation, transformation and going global advocated by the state at present, and need to be corrected urgently. For such enterprises, we should give contempt and necessary legal measures, instead of encouraging and acquiescing in hooliganism and barbaric development.

If you encounter patent hooligans:

Find a professional organization to judge whether there is infringement first. If there is infringement, weigh the time cost, money cost, energy cost and goodwill of "paid settlement" and "invalid patent", and choose one of them.

You have to apply for a patent to protect yourself in the future.