Neither- he already cashed out. He sold the patents years ago. Just like you can sell stock to people completely unrelated to a company, you can sell patents t

Neither- he already cashed out. He sold the patents years ago. Just like you can sell stock to people completely unrelated to a company, you can sell patents too. Patent trolls are just efficient monetization of patents. The real problem is patent law (and judges preventing class-action to allow more efficient judgement of the validity of patents).