Tag: Patent Assertion Entity (PAE)
International Trade, Not Interrupted Trade—Trolls and the ITC
You hear a lot about patent litigation in district courts. And, over the past several years, the new inter partes review procedure has seen a lot of attention (including last week’s renewed effort...
Should Abstract Ideas Be Unpatentable? The Answer Is A Snap
Tuesday, Kaldren LLC sued Snap. (According to RPX, Kaldren is affiliated with IP Edge, a notorious patent troll.) Kaldren sued over a set of expired patents on such wonderful ideas as:
Printing ...
ContentGuard: Arguendo
Today, we watched as a man stood in front of a panel and explained how the other side had behaved improperly and how the decisions they made were incorrect and contrary to applicable legal standards.
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ContentGuard: Validity and Privilege
Monday I summarized the history of the ContentGuard cases, and yesterday I described the process of claim interpretation. Today, we’ll turn to an issue that we’ve focused on recently, patent val...
ContentGuard: Defining A Patent Case
Yesterday, I went through the history of the ContentGuard v. Apple and ContentGuard v. Google cases. I talked briefly about the Markman process; today, I’d like to go into more detail on what Mark...
Previewing ContentGuard v. Apple and Google at the Federal Circuit
This Thursday, June 8, the Federal Circuit will hold oral argument in ContentGuard Holdings, Inc. v. Apple, Inc. and in ContentGuard Holdings, Inc. v Google, Inc. (The Google case also includes a nu...
Uniloc-ing Defendants Into The Eastern District of Texas
Yesterday, Uniloc sued Google in the Eastern District of Texas. Uniloc is a Luxembourg based company, not a Texas company.[1. They incorporated in Luxembourg for tax reasons. There are a number of...
Blackbird Gets Wings Clipped In Lighting Litigation
Last week I wrote about Blackbird Technologies, a relatively new patent troll with some ethical and practical issues. As I found out via Patently-O, it turns out that I’m not the only one who was ...
The Patent Troll’s New Clothes
You might have been reading a bit about Blackbird Technologies lately. Not the Blackbird Raytheon bought in 2014 (cybersecurity) or the Blackbird Etsy bought in 2016 (AI algorithms). (It’s a popular...