> "Friedland isn't sure how word of the settlement leaked to Troll Town, but he says that after he paid the fee, he was inundated with infringement letters from

> "Friedland isn't sure how word of the settlement leaked to Troll Town, but he says that after he paid the fee, he was inundated with infringement letters from trolls." NPE's are, almost by definition, shell companies for larger interests. [1] If you paid one of those off, it's quite obvious and inevitable that any of the other NPEs in that 'family' that have half a case would not even have to wait for word to 'leak out', but would be explicitly notified and ordered to come after you. [1] Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures has been reported to have a network of over a thousand such shell companies for this kind of thing. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100217/1853298215.shtml https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100217/1853298215.shtml