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→‎Defending against patent trolls: links from source suggest quote was lifted from elsewhere. Original source seems more reliable anyway. nb still doesn't support suggestion that FAILURE to have threat provisions is a CAUSE of trolling
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* ''[[Patent infringement insurance#Patent infringement insurance|Patent infringement insurance]]''. Insurance is available to help protect companies from inadvertently infringing a third party's patents.
* ''[[Defensive patent aggregation]]'', the practice of purchasing patents or patent rights from patent holders so they don't end up in the hands of an individual or enterprise that can assert them. Increasingly aggregations are focused on purchasing patents and patent rights off the open market, or out of NPE assertion and litigation, which directly impact the businesses of the aggregation's members. The aggregator then provides members a broad license to everything it owns in exchange for an annual fixed-fee.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2008/11/24/in-fight-against-patent-trolls-a-new-arrow-in-the-quiver |title=In Fight Against Patent Trolls, A New Arrow in the Quiver |newspaper=[[Wall Street Journal]] |date=November 24, 2008 }}</ref>
* ''Action for unjustified threats''. In Australia,<ref name=icFeb2014>http://www.insidecounsel.com/2014/02/19/patent-trolls-get-greedy-across-the-globe</ref> the UK{{cn|date=May 2014}} and other countries{{cn|date=May 2014}}, a legal action may be brought against anyone who makes unjustifiable threats to begin patent infringement proceedings. Concerning the Australian threats provisions, Amanda Ciccatelli points out, "if a patent troll is found to have engaged in a threat, the only way it could defend itself against an injunction or an award of monetary damages would be to commence patent infringement proceedings."<ref name=icFeb2014 />
 
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