Guest Post
When A Billion Dollars Is Not Enough: Apple’s Persistence in Enjoining its Competitors
On Tuesday February 12, Apple’s “normal” appellate brief appeared on the Federal Circuit’s docket (I say “normal” because Apple took the unconventional step of originally asking for an imm...
Summarizing the Briefs and Arguments in CLS Bank v. Alice
Tomorrow, the Federal Circuit will hear oral arguments in CLS Bank v. Alice Corp. In an earlier post we gave an introduction to the case and explained how potentially important it might be. At sta...
Previewing CLS Bank v. Alice
Tomorrow, February 8, the full Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (“Federal Circuit”), who receives nearly all patent appeals, will hear oral arguments in CLS Bank v. Alice Corp. This cas...
Ericsson and Unwired Planet: A One-Stop Shop for Outlining Patent Abuse
Swedish telecommunications pioneer Ericsson is the latest in a line of big companies turning to patent assertion entities (PAEs) to make a quick buck at the expense of competition and innovation. As...
PAE’s Attempt to Manipulate Antitrust Laws Thwarted (for now?)
In March of last year a noted Patent Assertion Entity (“PAE”), Cascades Computer Innovation, turned the concept of anticompetitive use of patents on its head by filing an antitrust suit against fi...
A History of Abuse
The U.S. patent system is almost as old as our country. The power to create patents was included in the constitution, and the first Patent Act was enacted in 1790. A lot of opponents of patent reform ...
USPTO Real Party in Interest Roundtable
On Friday, January 11 the USPTO held a public roundtable to discuss proposed requirements for recordation of real-party-in-interest information throughout application pendency and patent term. The U...
PAEs Ringing in New Year without Resolutions
Several outlets have reported on a bevy of lawsuits filed in Delaware by Steelhead Licensing LLC against operating entities concerning infringement of patent 5,491,834 entitled “Mobile Radio Han...
FTC Subpoena of Data Brokers May Be Good Model for FTC Study of PAEs
On December 18, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it has issued subpoenas to nine “Data Brokers” to provide the agency with information about how they collect and use data about consume...