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Member Profile: Built Robotics
San Francisco-based startup Built Robotics, which was founded in 2016, builds the robots that build the world. Robots are intelligent tools, and Built Robotics put [...]
LOT member profile: Alt Legal – transforming the world of IP practices
New York-based Alt Legal is transforming the world of trademark and IP docketing. Practitioners know that managing trademarks on a global scale involves a large [...]
Member Profile: Orbital Exploration Technologies (OrbitX)
Orbital Exploration Technologies (OrbitX) is the first commercial spaceflight company in the Philippines developing a rocket to be powered by renewable rocket fuels derived from [...]
LOT member profile: Metamaterial Technologies, Inc.- developing materials that advance how technology is used in everyday life
Nova Scotia-based Metamaterial Inc. (META) was founded in 2011 and is a smart materials and photonics company that is changing the way we use, interact, [...]
LOT member profile: CobbleStone Software – helping legal professionals better navigate contract management
Founded in 1995, Princeton, NJ-based CobbleStone Software is a cloud-based or deployed (on-premise) contract and procurement management software company used by many leading corporations, state [...]
LOT members immunized against 12% of all U.S. patents
As we are all ready to celebrate the end of a long and challenging year, here is more good news that is cause for celebration: [...]
Legal tech patent filings soar in China due to AI dominance, lawyer shortage
Most legal tech patents in 2019 were filed by China-based applicants, according to a new Thomson Reuters report. China’s dominance in legal tech patents is [...]
Analysis shows that the LOT network now covers more than 12% of granted US patents
As the LOT Network passes a notable landmark, CEO Ken Seddon reflects on the defensive platform’s recent growth, the IBM effect which is helping soften [...]
Innovative strategies for managing intellectual property risk
If data is the new oil, intellectual property (IP) is the new gold. IP is extremely valuable in today’s global economy where innovation is critical [...]
IBM’s recently announced split is big news for the company, less so on the IP front
After Big Blue announced at the start of the month that it is spinning off its managed infrastructure services unit, we reveal that a part [...]
What you need to know about patent trolls
It’s been a tough year for our industry. With a global pandemic in place, restaurants are looking for ways to keep their guests and employees [...]
How to protect intellectual property from costly patent troll litigation
In today’s global, intertwined economy, patent trolls are a threat to innovation, both now and in the future. In the US, trolls are known to [...]
Patent litigation rises during recessions: GCs now have a way to proactively reduce potential risks
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. [...]
How LOT Network can help in-house counsel to protect organizations from patent litigation
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 [...]
Tech companies: how we choose anti-NPE networks
Salesforce, Ecobee and Red Hat explain why companies choose some anti-NPE organisations over others, while the networks discuss how times are changing
Post COVID-19 plans of law firms and lawyers!
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 [...]
Exclusive interview with Ken Seddon CEO of LOT Network
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”). [...]
Essential Post COVID-19 Strategies for Law Firms: Thrive in the New Normal!
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 [...]
Japanese covid-19 patent pledge triples membership, but users must read fine print
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 [...]
What enterprises should consider when choosing a public cloud?
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 [...]
Top Japanese corporates pledge patent non-assertion to speed virus fight
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 [...]
Can ‘herd immunity’ beat patent trolls?
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 wants out of ‘rushed’ suit over sold-off IBM patents
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, [...]
Protecting innovation in the cyber world from patent trolls
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, [...]