Tag: Abusive Patent Litigation
ITC: No Public Interest In Excluding Qualcomm Competitors
Over a year ago, I filed comments at the International Trade Commission (ITC). Those comments explained why it went against the public interest to exclude Qualcomm’s competitors products from the ...
Yet More Evidence That NPEs Are Harmful To Innovation
Profs. Cohen, Gurun, and Kominers first published a paper collecting evidence of the impacts of NPEs on innovation in 2014. Recently, they updated the paper, incorporating additional evidence and re...
ITC Institutes An Investigation… Based On An NPE’s Complaint
Yesterday, the International Trade Commission (ITC) instituted an investigation based on a complaint filed by an apparent non-practicing entity (NPE), SIPCO. The ITC, as Patent Progress has covered ...
NPE Resurrects Canceled Patent To Go After Restaurants
A few years ago, a company called MacroSolve stopped creating products and started creating patent litigation. Its tool was a patent that claimed to cover mobile questionnaires. But after several ...
If A Free Patent Portfolio License Sounds Too Good To Be True—It Is
Non-practicing entities (NPEs) are generally companies with only one asset—their patents. So why would an NPE give away licenses to the only things it can generate value from? If it seems too go...
Using A Trade Court To Avoid Antitrust And FRAND: Qualcomm At The ITC
The first Apple/Qualcomm International Trade Commission (ITC) case is about to kick into high gear, with the prehearing conference scheduled for Friday and the hearing (essentially the equivalent of a...
Sovereign Immunity, Upper Skagit, and Patents
Earlier this week, the Supreme Court released their decision in Upper Skagit Indian Tribe v. Lundgren. The opinion effectively held that the simple fact of in rem jurisdiction does not always bar cl...
April Madness Is Here
March Madness is over, with the Big Ten not taking home a championship. (A sad day for Michigan fans like me.) But that’s okay—in April, the Big Ten Network has plenty to keep busy with. &nb...
Why Is The ITC Instituting Investigations On Expiring Patents?
Yesterday, the ITC published the Federal Register notice of the initial determination of an ITC administrative law judge (ALJ). The ALJ determined that the investigation, instituted in January based...