Sentences with phrase «shell companies whose»

New research shows that Intellectual Ventures is tied to at least 1,300 shell companies whose sole purpose is to coerce real companies into buying patent license that they don't want or need.

The move is a major blow for retailers, tech companies and a wide variety of businesses that have been shaken down by «patent trolls» — shell companies whose sole business consists of forcing their targets to pay for a patent license in order to avoid expensive litigation.

Likewise, those same people found a way to take any division that was hemorrhaging money — which was nearly every division, really — and shift those debts into shell companies whose «profits» would not show up on Enron's bottom line.

Often patent trolls set up shell companies whose only assets are the patents, which means they have no real revenues or assets.

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It was opened partly in response to a n examination by The New York Times of condominiums at the Time Warner Center in Manhattan whose ownership is hidden behind shell companies, according to the people with knowledge of the case.

EA Sports and the Collegiate Licensing Company are shelling out cash to players whose likenesses were used in the NCAA Football video game franchise.

For the third straight year, the de Blasio administration is planning to shell out roughly $ 30 million to a private bus company whose founder contributed to the mayor's failed 2014 push to win Democrats control of Albany.

For the third straight year, the de Blasio administration is planning to shell out roughly $ 30 million to a private bus company whose founder contributed to the mayor's failed 2014...

One of the company's pet projects is the restoration of the 1967 Mini Cooper S whose body was «butchered» to create the 2016 prototype shell.

The Company should eliminate all expenses that are not absolutely necessary for a company whose activities are limited to returning remaining assets to shareholders and operating as a publicCompany should eliminate all expenses that are not absolutely necessary for a company whose activities are limited to returning remaining assets to shareholders and operating as a publiccompany whose activities are limited to returning remaining assets to shareholders and operating as a public shell.