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 Simple English Wikipedia has 0.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

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

Since the creation of article “Patent troll”, its content was written by 6 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 750 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 5 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 829 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #3849 in November 2012
  • Global: #16372 in October 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #8515 in June 2016
  • Global: #27812 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, 2026 (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
65.8276
2Bulgarian (bg)
Патентен трол
63.3492
3Russian (ru)
Патентный тролль
35.3337
4Portuguese (pt)
Troll de patente
33.8006
5German (de)
Patent-Troll
33.28
6Arabic (ar)
تصيد براءات الاختراع
25.2428
7Hungarian (hu)
Szabadalmi troll
24.4564
8Spanish (es)
Trol de patentes
23.1331
9Azerbaijani (az)
Patent trolu
21.9983
10Finnish (fi)
Patenttitrolli
21.576
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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
2 194 142
2Japanese (ja)
パテント・トロール
416 641
3Russian (ru)
Патентный тролль
168 009
4German (de)
Patent-Troll
152 189
5Chinese (zh)
專利流氓
116 702
6French (fr)
Patent troll
109 915
7Spanish (es)
Trol de patentes
32 739
8Dutch (nl)
Patenttroll
28 431
9Korean (ko)
특허 괴물
27 008
10Polish (pl)
Troll patentowy
26 257
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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 2026

The most popular language versions of the article "Patent troll" in June 2026
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Patent troll
2 862
2Japanese (ja)
パテント・トロール
671
3Chinese (zh)
專利流氓
420
4Russian (ru)
Патентный тролль
242
5German (de)
Patent-Troll
201
6French (fr)
Patent troll
172
7Spanish (es)
Trol de patentes
84
8Polish (pl)
Troll patentowy
52
9Swedish (sv)
Patenttroll
31
10Persian (fa)
پتنت ترول
28
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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
307
2German (de)
Patent-Troll
118
3French (fr)
Patent troll
59
4Hebrew (he)
טרול פטנטים
37
5Japanese (ja)
パテント・トロール
36
6Russian (ru)
Патентный тролль
34
7Dutch (nl)
Patenttroll
26
8Chinese (zh)
專利流氓
24
9Spanish (es)
Trol de patentes
12
10Korean (ko)
특허 괴물
12
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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 2026

Language versions of the article "Patent troll" with the highest AI in June 2026
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
تصيد براءات الاختراع
1
2Azerbaijani (az)
Patent trolu
0
3Bulgarian (bg)
Патентен трол
0
4Czech (cs)
Patentový troll
0
5German (de)
Patent-Troll
0
6English (en)
Patent troll
0
7Spanish (es)
Trol de patentes
0
8Persian (fa)
پتنت ترول
0
9Finnish (fi)
Patenttitrolli
0
10French (fr)
Patent troll
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
358
2Japanese (ja)
パテント・トロール
146
3Korean (ko)
특허 괴물
55
4Arabic (ar)
تصيد براءات الاختراع
52
5Chinese (zh)
專利流氓
47
6Azerbaijani (az)
Patent trolu
29
7Swedish (sv)
Patenttroll
26
8Persian (fa)
پتنت ترول
24
9German (de)
Patent-Troll
20
10French (fr)
Patent troll
17
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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 Simple English:
#8515
06.2016
Global:
#27812
06.2016

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#3849
11.2012
Global:
#16372
10.2012

Local popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2025 – June 2026)

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Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

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