Here's a hypothetical example of a legitimate NPE: a club of inventors/patent holders getting together and forming a company to share administrative expenses. C

Here's a hypothetical example of a legitimate NPE: a club of inventors/patent holders getting together and forming a company to share administrative expenses. Certainly people can come up with other examples of benevolent NPEs. The key issue is whether or not patents owned by NPEs are valid which in the present system has to be demonstrated through litigation. That's why it is so important to help troll victims to pool their resources to fight bad patents. There is some work going on in this space by guys at fightthetroll.com