Excluding billed time for the process, it is amazingly easy to set up a corporation and transfer patents to it. Fixed costs for creating a shell corp are around

Excluding billed time for the process, it is amazingly easy to set up a corporation and transfer patents to it. Fixed costs for creating a shell corp are around ~$100. Newegg's approach (Never settle. If you sue us expect to pay our legal fees.) is maybe the best way to eliminate the economic incentives, given the uncertainty of the US legal system. There's a comment downthread by jacquesm detailing one way he exploited shell companies _against_ the trolls and they backed off...