In November 2017, Meta joined LOT Network. Why did Meta join?
For many years, I have shared Meta’s belief that a well-balanced patent system promotes innovation, makes bringing new products to market more manageable, and facilitates competition. Only a well-balanced system that ensures patent quality […]
DEI Initiatives. Today’s RFPs now routinely include diversity as a rating metric, yet some firms still struggle with diversity numbers. The Foundation for Advancement of Diversity in IP Law (The Foundation), formerly the American Intellectual Property Law Education Foundation, is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that is accelerating the development of a more diverse IP professional […]
Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd. (“Hikvision”) is the world’s largest company in surveillance technology. In November 2022, the US government barred Hikvision from its market. Subsequently, Hikvision notified the LOT Network that it would be leaving in June 2023.
Hikvision owns more than 14,000 patents. These patents cover a wide range of technologies, including video […]
I’m always energized by a gathering of our members, and this year was no different. At LOT Network BRIDGE on September 27, 2023, the Palace Hotel in San Francisco buzzed with the excitement of idea exchange and innovation. IP thought leader Cruise (Olivia Tsai), Google (Michael Lee), Meta (Christine Foo), and Microsoft (Burton […]
by Ken Seddon, CEO, LOT Network
In 2022, LOT Network proudly introduced a significant new member to its growing network of companies – AT&T. LOT Network is a non-profit community of companies dedicated to eliminating the threat to innovation posed by patent assertion entities (“PAEs,” […]
Intellectual property (IP) protection can be a vital part of a company’s journey from young upstart to billion-dollar behemoth, safeguarding all its technologists’ hard work while adding to the company’s value for investors or would-be acquirers.
But as we’ve seen countless times […]
This two-part TechCrunch series features the value LOT Network providers to 5k+ members by highlighting exits from the likes of TrendMicro, Epic Home Healthcare, ClearAccessIP, and Be Labs, showing the value of mutual community protection against PAEs […]
At Shopify, we prioritize choosing the right path over the easy one. Our merchants face this decision every day as they work to run successful businesses. But this concept applies in the judicial system too, and against an unscrupulous […]
People whose business models are threatened by strong post-grant review and improved patent quality continue to assert that non-practicing entities (NPEs) and the patent troll narrative is a myth or a fabrication of big tech companies. And yet, a […]
Many companies are moving away from using fossil fuels to reduce the environmental impact of their business, which has led to an explosion of research into alternative energy sources, with a large increase in the number of patents being filed each year over the last […]
In January, the venerable information technology (IT) software and services company, Micro Focus, was acquired by enterprise software provider OpenText in a $6 billion all-cash transaction. Beyond the obvious business impacts, the acquisition is of particular interest to LOT Network members: Micro Focus, a member of LOT Network […]
