Re:Am I missing something? (Score 2, Informative)

The patents are valid until the reexam process is over. A patent troll, to my mind, is a company whose only assets are patents that they bought from others. Under my definition, NTP is not a patent troll. Some people use the defintion patent troll = someone who owns and enforces a patent, but doesn't produce any patented items. Under a definition like that, pretty much any research university would be considered a patent troll, which doesn't seem right. I like my definition better.