Definition of "nonpracticing" []

• Not practicing; of a person in a particular profession, not engaged in the practice of that profession; of a person born into a particular religion, not abiding by the rituals and mores of that religion. (adjective)

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• "Such licensing firms are often called nonpracticing entities -- or, more derisively, patent trolls -- because they don't make or sell products that use patents."
• "And what are called nonpracticing entities or patent trolls, if you prefer such as Intellectual Ventures and NTP have sued pretty much the lot of them."
• "They have created practices to represent not the largest, most tech-savvy companies, but to work for patent-holding plaintiffs known as "nonpracticing entities," or what some critics call "patent trolls.""