Biggest players have most to lose from IV. IV in fact must target big players to extract largest sums possible. Big players also often have diverse profitable products making them much more easier target. In return, big players can't sue IV because IV has zero products on market.
IV's business model is this: Hire 30+ full time staff to do nothing but idea generation. They do some proof of concept to show off to journalist in attempt to clean their image as trolls but in reality they have no plans to make any products whatsoever. In addition they have 100s of other people which had previously included some well known researchers and experts to "generate ideas". All of these ideas becomes patent. They also but entire portfolios from other trolls.
So the name of the game is to some how collect 1000s of patents in just few years. That increases your potential target domain. Now you go to actual businesses and demand "protection money" like traditional mafias and gangs used to do. For a much lower "subscription" cost you can avoid multi-million dollar suits.
Another twist in the business plan is that the "member" companies can use IV's portfolio to attack non-members. Imagine Samsung using IV's patents against Google. That increases incentive to become member just because you don't want to be attacked by other members.
IV's business model is this: Hire 30+ full time staff to do nothing but idea generation. They do some proof of concept to show off to journalist in attempt to clean their image as trolls but in reality they have no plans to make any products whatsoever. In addition they have 100s of other people which had previously included some well known researchers and experts to "generate ideas". All of these ideas becomes patent. They also but entire portfolios from other trolls.
So the name of the game is to some how collect 1000s of patents in just few years. That increases your potential target domain. Now you go to actual businesses and demand "protection money" like traditional mafias and gangs used to do. For a much lower "subscription" cost you can avoid multi-million dollar suits.
Another twist in the business plan is that the "member" companies can use IV's portfolio to attack non-members. Imagine Samsung using IV's patents against Google. That increases incentive to become member just because you don't want to be attacked by other members.