Showing posts with label NPEs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NPEs. Show all posts
Saturday, 23 November 2019

Anti-Troll LOT Network Expands to 500 members

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The Anti-Troll (or Troll protection) LOT Network has expanded to 500 members.  I first wrote about the Google started LOT Network in 2015, a...
Thursday, 15 February 2018

Federal Circuit Pushes Back on U.S. Supreme Court’s Alice Decision on Procedure

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In a pair of interesting software-related cases, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit appears to push back on one of the supp...
Wednesday, 16 August 2017

USPTO Releases Report on Public Views on Patent Eligibility Rules

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The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has released a report titled, “PATENT ELIGIBLE SUBJECT MATTER:   REPORT ON VIEWS ...
Monday, 5 June 2017

TC Heartland: Good for Patent Litigation?

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In TC Heartland v. Kraft Food Group Brands , a recent opinion, the US Supreme Court decided to restrict the meaning of the patent venue sta...
Friday, 28 April 2017

"Opportunistic" Google and Intertrust Launch "Patent Shield": Protection for Startups

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Google and Intertrust have announced the creation of Patent Shield, which is designed to protect startups.   Essentially, the exchange i...
Monday, 7 November 2016

China Ripe for Non-Practicing Entity Suits

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A short time ago, I wrote about an article by Ma Si in the China Daily concerning the likelihood of an increase in patent suits filed in Chi...
Friday, 7 October 2016

U.S. Federal Trade Commission Releases Report on Patent Assertion Entities

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On October 6, 2016, the Federal Trade Commission [FTC] released a 269 page report titled,  "Patent Assertion Entity Activity: An FTC S...
Friday, 5 August 2016

Subsidized IP Litigation Insurance in Japan and Increased Enforcement in China

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As reported by Ellie Wilson on the IP Kat blog, the Japanese Patent Office (JPO) has announced a program whereby half of the premiums for I...
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Monday, 6 June 2016

Nothing New in the World of Patents: "Patent Licensing and Secondary Markets in the Nineteenth Century"

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In a recent blog post " Nothing New Under the Sun: “Patent Trolls” Have Been Around Forever," I discussed Professor Zorina Khan...
Tuesday, 3 May 2016

Patent Monetization Entities Generally Asserting Ordinary "Meritfull" Claims?

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The Recorder has published data and conclusions concerning a study of district court awards of attorney fees post-U.S. Supreme Court decisi...
Wednesday, 19 August 2015

Cumulative mobile-SEP royalty payments no more than around 5% of mobile handset revenues

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As indicated in the recent IP Finance guest posting about the US Court of Appeals judgment in Microsoft Corp. versus Motorola Inc. ,  by Kev...
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Friday, 15 August 2014

Nothing New Under the Sun: “Patent Trolls” Have Been Around Forever (well, at least a couple hundred years)

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In a fascinating paper titled, “ Trolls and Other Patent Inventions: Economic History and the Patent Controversy in the Twenty-First Century...
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Thursday, 3 July 2014

Who are the “Good” “Trolls”? Or, How to Monetize Well?

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This blog, in the past, has discussed the merits of so-called “patent trolls” or patent assertion entities (PAEs), here , here  and here .  ...
Tuesday, 5 November 2013

Chief Judge Rader’s Recent Comments on Patents and the Federal Circuit Bar Association

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The Federal Circuit Bar Association (FCBA) recently released a copy of the remarks of Chief Judge Rader at the recent Eastern District of...
Friday, 15 February 2013

What Kind of Damages Does an NPE Deserve?

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With all of the media attention that has been given the $1.05 billion dollar verdict in the Apple suit against Samsung, it is a bit surpr...
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Thursday, 29 March 2012

Patent trolls aren’t all they are cracked up to be

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IP Finance is pleased to welcome back Keith Mallinson , whose guest posts on patents, standards and FRAND licensing in the telecom sector ha...