Patent troll

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Patent troll

Quality:

Patent troll - business that cashes in on inventions of others by buying up patents before expiration date. Article “Patent troll” in French Wikipedia has 16.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 8 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (French) language version.

Since the creation of article “Patent troll”, its content was written by 57 registered users of French Wikipedia and edited by 734 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 19 times in French Wikipedia and cited 856 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (French): #12783 in October 2011
  • Global: #16379 in October 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (French): #16116 in August 2011
  • Global: #27699 in June 2016

There are 22 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Patent troll
69.6345
2Bulgarian (bg)
Патентен трол
64.9921
3German (de)
Patent-Troll
37.1674
4Russian (ru)
Патентный тролль
35.2623
5Portuguese (pt)
Troll de patente
34.0279
6Arabic (ar)
تصيد براءات الاختراع
25.383
7Persian (fa)
پتنت ترول
25.3118
8Hungarian (hu)
Szabadalmi troll
24.4673
9Spanish (es)
Trol de patentes
23.4642
10Azerbaijani (az)
Patent trolu
22.1721
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Patent troll" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Patent troll
2 146 780
2Japanese (ja)
パテント・トロール
408 274
3Russian (ru)
Патентный тролль
155 265
4German (de)
Patent-Troll
149 621
5Chinese (zh)
專利流氓
113 455
6French (fr)
Patent troll
107 436
7Spanish (es)
Trol de patentes
31 757
8Dutch (nl)
Patenttroll
28 286
9Korean (ko)
특허 괴물
26 494
10Polish (pl)
Troll patentowy
25 490
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Patent troll" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Patent troll
5 438
2Japanese (ja)
パテント・トロール
744
3Russian (ru)
Патентный тролль
438
4Chinese (zh)
專利流氓
346
5German (de)
Patent-Troll
177
6Simple English (simple)
Patent troll
175
7French (fr)
Patent troll
168
8Hebrew (he)
טרול פטנטים
76
9Korean (ko)
특허 괴물
53
10Spanish (es)
Trol de patentes
51
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Patent troll" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Patent troll
302
2German (de)
Patent-Troll
118
3French (fr)
Patent troll
57
4Hebrew (he)
טרול פטנטים
36
5Japanese (ja)
パテント・トロール
35
6Russian (ru)
Патентный тролль
32
7Dutch (nl)
Patenttroll
26
8Chinese (zh)
專利流氓
24
9Korean (ko)
특허 괴물
12
10Spanish (es)
Trol de patentes
11
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Patent troll" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Dutch (nl)
Patenttroll
1
2Arabic (ar)
تصيد براءات الاختراع
0
3Azerbaijani (az)
Patent trolu
0
4Bulgarian (bg)
Патентен трол
0
5Czech (cs)
Patentový troll
0
6German (de)
Patent-Troll
0
7English (en)
Patent troll
0
8Spanish (es)
Trol de patentes
0
9Persian (fa)
پتنت ترول
0
10Finnish (fi)
Patenttitrolli
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Patent troll" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Patent troll
390
2Japanese (ja)
パテント・トロール
144
3Arabic (ar)
تصيد براءات الاختراع
49
4Korean (ko)
특허 괴물
49
5Chinese (zh)
專利流氓
47
6Azerbaijani (az)
Patent trolu
29
7Swedish (sv)
Patenttroll
26
8German (de)
Patent-Troll
24
9Persian (fa)
پتنت ترول
24
10French (fr)
Patent troll
19
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
تصيد براءات الاختراع
azAzerbaijani
Patent trolu
bgBulgarian
Патентен трол
csCzech
Patentový troll
deGerman
Patent-Troll
enEnglish
Patent troll
esSpanish
Trol de patentes
faPersian
پتنت ترول
fiFinnish
Patenttitrolli
frFrench
Patent troll
heHebrew
טרול פטנטים
huHungarian
Szabadalmi troll
jaJapanese
パテント・トロール
koKorean
특허 괴물
nlDutch
Patenttroll
plPolish
Troll patentowy
ptPortuguese
Troll de patente
ruRussian
Патентный тролль
simpleSimple English
Patent troll
svSwedish
Patenttroll
ukUkrainian
Патентний троль
zhChinese
專利流氓

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank French:
#16116
08.2011
Global:
#27699
06.2016

AI rank trends

Best Rank French:
#12783
10.2011
Global:
#16379
10.2012

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Patent troll from Wikipedia articles about George Hotz, IBM, Immersion Corporation, Marathon Digital Holdings and Richard Fuisz. Whereas reading the article about Patent troll people most often go to Wikipedia articles on English rule, Copyright troll, Submarine patent, Octane Fitness, LLC v. ICON Health & Fitness, Inc. and JPEG.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

simple: Patent troll

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