The recession of 2008-2009 laid bare many of the challenges that general counsels faced during that period of economic uncertainty. Over 200,000 companies failed (e.g. [...]

The pandemic-induced economic downturn is likely to lead to a rise in activity from patent trolls as many distressed companies begin selling patents to save [...]

Salesforce, Ecobee and Red Hat explain why companies choose some anti-NPE organisations over others, while the networks discuss how times are changing

COVID-19 has led to an economic disruption throughout the world, and businesses are finding it hard to cope with the same. If we talk about [...]

LOT Network Inc., is an international community of high-tech companies protecting against costly litigation brought by patent assertion entities (PAEs, also known as “patent trolls”). [...]

COVID-19 has led to an economic disruption throughout the world, and businesses are finding it hard to cope with the same. If we talk about [...]

Three weeks ago, IAM reported on the formation of an Open Covid-19 Declaration (OCD) spearheaded by sixteen Japanese IP owners including Canon. Those companies have [...]

World over, the majority of enterprises across sectors are about 20 per cent into their transition to the public cloud. Most companies are about to [...]

Sixteen Japanese companies in high tech and healthcare have pledged not to assert patents against any activity whose purpose is to stop the spread of [...]

As a patent attorney at firms such as Apple, Ken Seddon was no stranger to patent trolls. As chief executive officer of the LOT Network, [...]

Uber has asked a Texas federal judge to free it from a suit accussing the ride-hailing company of infringing six patents previously owned by IBM, [...]

With trillions of dollars to keep watch over, the last thing we need is the distraction of costly litigation brought on by patent assertion entities, [...]

The use of open source software has become increasingly ubiquitous across a growing number of industries -- it is fast becoming the very foundation of [...]

Scottsdale, Arizona-based Open Design Alliance (ODA) was founded in 1998 to provide the engineering industry with a standard solution for .dwg interoperability. They are a [...]

COVID-19 has dramatically impacted all of our lives, both personally and professionally.  We at LOT Network would like to extend our deepest condolences for [...]

In these challenging times, our focus at LOT is to support you and your companies to the best of our ability.  While I look forward [...]

The Open Design Alliance announced last month that it had become a member of LOT Network, which holds 2.3 million patents. It protects firms when [...]

As the world enters the 5G era, fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) access to the patents behind the revolutionary technology will become one of the [...]

IBM targets AirBnB in new lawsuit, touting LOT membership to show good corporate citizenship.

Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to develop products such as platforms, software, tools, and apps is currently the most dominating technology in the global marketplace. [...]

With trillions of dollars to keep watch over, the last thing we need is the distraction of costly litigation brought on by Patent Assertion Entities [...]

Prolific Patent Assertion Entity (PAE) Uniloc filed its largest volume of cases in 2018. We previously reported a noticeable increase in filings during 2016-2017. The [...]

One of the most talked about technologies today is blockchain. Marc Kaufman explains how to protect the tech from patent trolls

Patents provide the owner thereof the right to exclude others from practicing the patented invention for a limited period of time. In exchange for this [...]