The patent market is growing a lot as the economic downturn places more assets for sale.
Companies are exiting markets and their assets are being listed: for example, GoPro Inc is selling its drone portfolio and Intel Corp is selling its wireless […]
A HighTech-Solutions (HTS) study, commissioned by the international, non-profit patent licensing platform LOT Network, analyzed the 6,161 lawsuits filed by non-practicing entities (NPEs) from 2017 through 2022. The analysis identified several key findings.
First, the study found that companies who are preparing […]
US companies that go public are at a greater risk of being targeted by non-practising entities and should consider defensive strategies, according to counsel.
Sources say savvy NPEs are increasingly targeting smaller companies that they believe they can exert leverage over. The […]
Large companies such as Samsung, Google, Apple and Amazon are the most frequent targets of patent litigation.
But a new report highlights how smaller companies have also become fairly common targets of patent lawsuits filed by non-practicing entities (NPEs), which are also sometimes called […]
In an exclusive interview, Ken Seddon tells Managing IP that he expects several semiconductor companies to join the LOT Network as a group
Litigation funding has increased the potency of some non-practising entity lawsuits, creating challenges for in-house counsel at tech companies.
Joining the international non-profit community is an important step in ensuring the health of the AI community
PHOENIX, AZ (DECEMBER 20, 2022): LOT Network, the international community of the world’s leading high-tech companies committed to protecting its members from costly litigation from patent assertion entities (PAEs, also known as “patent trolls”), announced today that
Bilibili is one of the leading video platforms in China and is particularly popular among the country’s millennials. In its explorations into international audiences, the Shanghai-based company turned to a patent pool to shield itself from overseas infringement actions. Nan Liu, […]
In recent years, we have made great progress in envisioning, implementing, and championing programmes for furthering diversity and inclusion (D&I) within our own teams.
Imagine if we could systematically scale out these efforts from our individual companies to the industry. ADAPT (Advancing […]
The Patent Lawyer sits down with a panel of ADAPT’s members, including Judy Yee, Assistant General Counsel at Microsoft, Micheal Binns, Global Head of Patent Portfolio Strategy for Meta’s Family of Apps, and Ken Seddon, CEO of LOT Network, to discuss […]
