Tag: patent litigation
A Unified Litigation Funding Disclosure Rule
Last week, I had the rare opportunity to speak at the UK’s Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys Congress 2023 in Cambridge. I was there to discuss evolving business models of U.S. patent assertio...
Cross-Licenses, Royalty Stacking, and Patent Disputes
While the majority of U.S. patent litigation is now NPE litigation (and has been since at least 2009), litigation between operating companies continues to occur at roughly the same rate as it has for ...
Inter Partes Review: Five Years, Over $2 Billion Saved
This Saturday, September 15, 2017, marks the five-year anniversary of the first filing of an inter partes review. We’ve seen nearly 7,000 post-grant reviews filed since then, a Supreme Court case ...
News Coverage of House Judiciary Patent Troll Hearing
Here are some links to some good stories on the judiciary committee hearing yesterday on patent trolls. We are working on a bigger post on this that will be up later today or Monday.
Corporate coun...
Patents in the News 2/27
Businesses plan to boost IP litigation spending - survey
Thomson Reuters
February 27, 2013
Dan Levine
More publicly traded companies are planning to increase spending on intellectual property ...
Entrepreneurs to Congress: Fix the Patent Troll Problem
Today, more than 60 entrepreneurs wrote to Congress demanding Congress do something about the growing threat patent assertion entities are creating for the startup community. Led by Engine Advocacy ...
Patents in the News 2/26
The CCIA and RIM Tell the FTC Banning Injunctions for FRAND Patents Can Make Smartphone Wars Worse
Groklaw
February 26, 2013
If the government wants to build a highway and your house is in the way of ...
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...