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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 [...]

DevOps teams can get bogged down with cumbersome code, systems integration, out-of-date tools, or simply the time demands technology and a company’s ever evolving tech [...]

An alleged sold off just before joining an organization aimed at fighting such companies. About two weeks before joinging the LOT Network in January, IBM [...]

Blockchain. To some, like NYU Professor and economist Nouriel Roubini, it’s “the most overhyped – and least useful – technology in human history.” To others, [...]

The LOT Network, the patent-licensing initiative aimed at curbing lawsuits by patent assertion entities, recently added major patent holders like IBM and Toyota, highlighting its [...]

On the same day recently that IBM announced it had received the most U.S. patents for the 27th consecutive year, our company made a second [...]

Tech and auto companies including Apple, BMW, Microsoft, and Samsung have urged the European Commission to take action to stop European courts from issuing automatic [...]

LOT's expanding membership in China indicates rising NPE worry

Though startup founders wear many hats when they launch their businesses — innovator, creator, delegator, coder, fundraiser, and marketer — not many list patent attorney [...]

Across the globe, today’s leading financial institutions are making massive investments into technology and IT development. Why? To create best-in-class technology platforms, payment processing capabilities [...]

Every business plan involves a degree of risk. For some it is uncertainty about the viability of the product, while for others it is a [...]