<story><title>BlackBerry sells mobile patents to patent troll for $600M</title><url>https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/01/31/blackberry-sells-mobile-patents-to-patent-troll-for-600m</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blakesterz</author><text>&amp;quot;BlackBerry&amp;#x27;s sale is to what could be considered a &amp;quot;Non-practicing entity,&amp;quot; a company that doesn&amp;#x27;t earn revenue from product or services sales, but is more likely to do so through asset protection. Many refer to these sorts of entities as &amp;quot;patent trolls.&amp;quot;&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;That looks pretty bad. Seems pretty obvious this is going to cost Apple &amp;amp; Google some serious money, even if it&amp;#x27;s just hiring more lawyers for the lawsuits from &amp;quot;Catapult IP Innovations&amp;quot;.</text></comment>
<story><title>BlackBerry sells mobile patents to patent troll for $600M</title><url>https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/01/31/blackberry-sells-mobile-patents-to-patent-troll-for-600m</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mrkramer</author><text>Patent trolls buy patents for $600m?! How the hell trolls amassed so much money? Are there investment banks and VCs which invest in patent trolls?</text></comment>