Tag: patent troll
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 ...
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...
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...
Tribal Immunity May Not Be Wonder Drug For Allergan
This article was originally published on Law360 and is reprinted here.
You’ve probably already heard the story. Allergan PLC owns patents related to relieving dry eyes. These patents allegedly r...
Big Tech vs. Big Pharma: An Article Filled With Big Errors
On Monday, the Financial Times published an article by Rana Foroohar. While there are a lot of flaws in the article, one particularly pernicious myth shows up—the myth that patent trolls aren’t ...
IPR Successes: The Next Five Years
Over the past month, I’ve shown just how successful the inter partes review (IPR) program has been in its first five years. IPR has saved billions of dollars and helped everyone from city governme...
IPR Successes: A Bridge To Sovereign Patent Funds
Patent trolls are a familiar concept at this point, but a “sovereign patent fund” (SPF) might not be. This isn’t the kind of sovereign I wrote about recently in regard to sovereign immunity. �...
IPR Successes: Scan-To-Email Defeated By Scanner Makers
In the pantheon of infamous patent trolls, MPHJ is near the top. MPHJ drew attention for their habit of mailing demand letters to anyone they thought might possibly have infringed their scan-to-emai...
IPR Successes: Realtors Association Defends Its Members Using IPR
When you buy a house, it’s nice to know where the local schools are, where the closest park is, where a nearby grocery is. So realtors commonly embed tools on their websites to show you a map of t...