By Diane Lettelleir, JC Penney
Diane Lettelleir
For the last few decades, venue for patent infringement suits has generally been considered to be nationwide. With the rise of PAEs, one of the significant challenges faced by most defendants targeted by patent infringement litigation initiated by PAEs, is being […]
By Howard Skaist, Berkeley Law & Technology Group
Howard Skaist
This is the first article of a three-part series sharing some of Berkeley Law & Technology Group’s PATENTBUSTERS® tips. These tips suggest tools companies can use to efficiently devalue or invalidate an asserted patent, potentially saving time […]
If we consider Nokia’s (NOK) financial reports for the past several quarters, we can see an image of a company in need of growth boosters. Nokia relies on selling network equipment and services for […]
An IP protection strategy is often not the first or even the tenth thing startup founders think about. This is particularly true for Canadian companies because Patent Assertion Entities, otherwise known as “patent trolls,” […]
Defensive aggregator models continue to evolve to address the challenge posed by patent assertion entities. While determining the financial return on these can be challenging, there are solutions – as a work-through of the […]
Entrepreneurs don’t pour all their energy into building startups just to have a patent assertion entity (PAE, or “patent troll”) attack them with patents of questionable quality. That is, unfortunately, a very common patent […]
As the tech sector continues to mature, regional differences have become more pronounced, but some industry trends ignore geographic boundaries. It’s become a cliché, but still rings true: 2016 was yet another milestone year for the […]
In a previous blog post, we briefly discussed the LOT Network’s initiative in in the fight against patent assertion entities (PAEs), more commonly known as patent trolls. Since the publication of that post, the LOT Network […]
Ken Seddon
GROWTH.
In a single word, growth is what LOT Network has been experiencing this year. With the addition of industry leaders like Ant Financial, Alibaba, Daimler, Cisco, Udemy, CoreLogic, TCL, and over 20 start-ups, LOT Network has grown to 131 members. We are now able to permanently […]
By Maria Anderson, Mauricio Uribe, and Christie Matthaei
Maria Anderson
Prior to 2007, a finding of patent infringement also carried a high risk of a finding of willful infringement absent some form of prior mitigation by the defendant. Accordingly, a vast majority of companies addressed the […]
By Frank Bernstein, Singularity
Frank Bernstein
In Life Techs. Corp. v. Promega Corp., [1] the US Supreme Court reversed the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit yet again, holding that making a single component of a patented invention in the US, and sending that component […]
Founded in 2011 in Santa Clara, California
It’s safe to say that lead-acid batteries have been a part of your life for as long as you’ve been alive: they are the standard battery in most cars and other vehicles. Like most people in the developed world, you […]
