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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 Lew [...]
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 [...]
Be proactive: what companies should know about the upcoming launch of the Unified Patent Court
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 [...]
A better way to combat patent trolls
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, [...]
A playbook for fighting patent trolls
Coinbase recently won a case against a particularly aggressive patent troll. Today, we want to share some of what we learned in this fight — [...]
What do patents have to do with it? Protecting the future of student learning
Those of us on a mission to improve educational outcomes have evolved to take advantage of new technologies as well as new realities to help [...]
How the LOT Network seeks to protect biopharma IP
There are about 30,000 to 40,000 patents for sale on the open market at any moment. Traditionally, most patents for sale stem from distressed tech [...]
Meta patent head shares key IP risk management lessons
When Jeremiah Chan goes to work as Meta’s patents chief, he approaches risk management by thinking back to a fundamental question that one of his [...]
LOT Network 2021 Report: The world’s largest portfolio reduces risk from Patent Assertion Entities.
Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs) are companies whose business model is to acquire patents and assert them against companies that sell products. By one estimate, PAEs [...]
Why patent losses are a risk to industry innovation
Over the past decade, the healthcare industry has greatly increased its technological dependence, and that trend is only accelerated. Many other industries – they include [...]
Ken Seddon of LOT Network: “Be creative at telling your story”
Ken Seddon is CEO of LOT Network, Inc. the largest community of high-tech companies committed to protecting its members from costly patent troll litigation. Ken has [...]
LOT member profile: amplified: augmented intelligence for a naturally intelligent patent search
Amplified AI was built for simpler and more effective patent searches. The company, which is led by Founders Sam Davis, CEO, Chris Grainger, CTO, [...]
Chinese companies facing rising global PAE risk
Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs) are companies whose business model is to acquire patents and assert them against companies which generate revenue from making or selling [...]
A note from the CEO: BRIDGE 2021 and patent sale program
While 2021 has not proven to be free of challenges, much has been happening at LOT Network over the last few months. Here are the [...]