Aaron Capron
by Aaron J. Capron and Nicholas D. Petrella
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP
The America Invents Act (AIA) ushered in new post grant procedures for challenging the validity of patents. One of those procedures, Inter Partes Review (IPR), has quickly grown in popularity. […]
Howard Skaist
By Howard Skaist, Berkeley Law & Technology Group
This is the second article of a three-part series sharing some of Berkeley Law & Technology Group’s PATENTBUSTERS® tips. These tips suggest tools that companies can use to efficiently devalue or invalidate an asserted patent, potentially saving […]
By David Perry, Senior Patent Counsel Red Hat, Inc.
David Perry
Like many companies, Red Hat is concerned with abuses of the patent system, including suits by patent assertion entities (PAEs). We have argued against patents on software before the PTO and the U.S. Supreme Court. In our recently updated […]
Ken Seddon
The original Oktoberfest was held in 1810 as the citizens of Munich celebrated the marriage of soon to be King Ludwig I and his bride, Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen. If you’ve never been, I would encourage you to experience Oktoberfest at least once, as the celebrations […]
By Patrick McBride, Senior Director of Patents Red Hat, Inc.
Patrick McBride
What is the best way for technology companies to protect themselves from patent aggression without discouraging open source innovation? Red Hat has worked on various approaches to this problem, including a substantial new revision of its Patent Promise.
Red […]
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FI.SPAN Helps Fin-techs, Banks and Businesses Win
You’re a small or mid-sized business. Every month you pay about 1000 invoices. Your accountant tracks all these invoices, runs them through your AP system, then uploads roughly half of them — through an […]
Ken Seddon
The second quarter of 2017 brought us a bang and a fizzle. The bang was the large number of companies joining LOT. Our community continues to grow at a record pace, adding 34 new members including Volkswagen, Vizio, Salesforce, eBay, Net App, Tesla, Electronic Arts, […]
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 […]
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 […]
