IP executives from Microsoft and Meta, along with LOT Network’s CEO, explain their aims behind a new initiative aimed at tackling diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) issues in the IP industry. A new initiative aimed at tackling diversity, equity, […]
When I fled hurricane-torn Jamaica for New York City in the late 1980s, I arrived on streets that were not paved with gold, but with poverty, hunger and systemic oppression. As a Black teenager, I was marginalised because of the […]
Amazon, Cruise, The Walt Disney Company, Google, Meta, and Microsoft have partnered to create the Advancing Diversity Across Patent Teams (ADAPT) initiative, which will seek to boost diversity, equity and inclusion in the intellectual property industry.
The companies, which are […]
Patent trolling, critics say, is guided by one principle alone: money. Yet tackling it remains a complex task with many angles. Today, a consortium called LOT — set up to help improve how the tech world and […]
Dear Colleagues,
The 5G Transparency Project (“5GTP”) is a non-profit LOT Network initiative to bring together market participants both within and beyond the LOT Network membership to create a superior, shared perspective on the 5G cellular SEP landscape.
Shared perspective among industry participants will stimulate greater understanding of the cellular market environment and increase confidence and accuracy in IP executive decision-making, write Bowman Heiden and Lew Zeretzki
The rapidly changing economic environment in recent years has spurred a wide array of companies to put their patents on the open market for sale.
This in turn has resulted in more patent assertion entities (PAEs), which are often called patent […]
June 1, 2022 — LOT Network has expanded its range of membership benefits to include access to the Cipher strategic patent intelligence platform. This development builds on Cipher’s existing role of monitoring the patents owned by LOT […]
Over 82% believe that it is more than likely that they will have an issue in the short term. Over half of patent owners, however, do not report on patent risk until there is a significant issue. There are many reasons given for this including the absence of reliable data and the lack […]
Friends of LOT:
It’s hard to believe that we are already midway through 2022, but we are happy to report that LOT Network continues its rapid growth trajectory. We now have more than 2,150 members and 3.5 million patent assets under our protection, including 15% of all US patents. We continue to […]
The Unified Patent Court will open for business towards the end of 2022 or sometime early in 2023 and when it does it will revolutionize the way in which patents are litigated in Europe.
When the Court comes into existence, it will provide a […]
Many businesses face ongoing threats from patent assertion entities (PAEs), or so-called “patent trolls,” that acquire patents solely for the purpose of suing pharma, tech, and other firms for infringement. They never plan to manufacture the patented products but […]
