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Patrolling the patent trolls

Non-practising entities (NPEs) are organisations that develop or acquire patents and seek to ‘monetise’ them without any intention to manufacture.  Clearly this sort of activity is dreadful.  We want companies to make things, don’t we?

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[This article was first published in the December 2013 issue of Chemistry & Industry (www.soci.org @sciupdate)]