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ADAPT: looking forward
Since its launch in September 2022, ADAPT, which is organized around making DEI programs accessible to companies of all sizes, has been active in pursuing [...]
Letter from the CEO: growth, patent queries, BRIDGE, and more member support than ever
Friends of LOT: At the risk of sounding like a broken record, growth continues to be the core theme for LOT Network. LOT added over [...]
LOT Network provides startups with protection against patent trolls
Pre-IPO companies and startups in earlier financing cycles need their due diligence to go smoothly. No surprise, then, that a recent study has found that [...]
The brokered patent market in 2022
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 [...]
Research finds companies just pre- and post-IPO are at highest risk of being targeted by a non-practicing entity lawsuit
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 [...]
Going public? Beware NPEs
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 [...]
Patent trolls often target smaller companies, study finds
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 [...]
Research finds companies just pre- and post-IPO are at highest risk of being targeted by a non-practicing entity lawsuit
Research Finds Companies Just Pre- and Post-IPO are at Highest Risk of Being Targeted by a Non-Practicing Entity Lawsuit Nearly 40% of companies litigated were [...]
LOT Network aims to snag group of semiconductor firms
In an exclusive interview, Ken Seddon tells Managing IP that he expects several semiconductor companies to join the LOT Network as a group
Tech companies struggle to keep pace with funder-backed NPEs
Litigation funding has increased the potency of some non-practising entity lawsuits, creating challenges for in-house counsel at tech companies.
Bilibili – The Chinese tech company mitigating overseas litigation risks via a patent pool approach
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 [...]
How will you Adapt?
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 [...]
ADAPT: the light to a diverse future in the patent field
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 [...]
Community spirit and patent protection
When it comes to patents, there’s something the high-tech and pharmaceutical industries should agree on: how to stop the damage caused by patent assertion entities [...]
Q&A: LOT Network’s diversity in patent teams project
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 [...]
IP and innovation inclusion takes a village: a Meta perspective
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 [...]
Large companies partner to improve diversity in IP law
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 [...]
LOT, the anti-patent-troll group, launches Adapt to tackle inclusion in the world of IP
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 [...]
Feedback from: 5G Transparency Project
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 [...]
Why it’s time to create transparency around 5G SEPs
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 [...]
A growing network of companies is fighting back against patent trolls
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. [...]
LOT Network offers Cipher access to members
June 1, 2022 -- LOT Network has expanded its range of membership benefits to include access to the Cipher strategic patent intelligence platform. This development [...]
Cipher patent risk survey: why proactive risk management costs less
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, [...]
Letter from the CEO: updates and new member benefits
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 [...]