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Baidu, a global AI and technology leader, announces its membership in LOT Network, the leading protective IP community
Joining the international non-profit community is an important step in ensuring the health of the AI community
PHOENIX, AZ (DECEMBER 20, 2022): LOT Network, the international community of the world’s leading high-tech companies committed to protecting its members from costly litigation from patent assertion entities (PAEs, also known as “patent trolls”), announced today that
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 Shanghai-based company turned to a patent pool to shield itself from overseas infringement actions. Nan Liu, […]
SimpliSafe Joins LOT Network in a Proactive Measure Against the Threat of Patent Trolls
Over the past 15 years, SimpliSafe has transformed the home security market, making home protection more accessible than ever. Its innovative hardware and software have been paramount to its category disruption. Joining LOT Network will enable SimpliSafe to continue focusing on […]
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 if we could systematically scale out these efforts from our individual companies to the industry. ADAPT (Advancing […]
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 Portfolio Strategy for Meta’s Family of Apps, and Ken Seddon, CEO of LOT Network, to discuss […]
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 (PAEs).
PAEs – or “patent trolls” – are entities that acquire patents from sources, such as […]
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 (DEI) issues in the IP industry. A new initiative aimed at tackling diversity, equity, […]
LOT Network, Amazon, Cruise, The Walt Disney Company, Google, Meta, Microsoft Join Forces to Spearhead IP Diversity Initiative
LOT Network Inc. with Amazon, Cruise, The Walt Disney Company, Google, Meta, and Microsoft have partnered to form a new initiative called Advancing Diversity Across Patent Teams (ADAPT) to address diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) issues in the IP […]
LOT Network launches IP diversity initiative
LOT Network, a non-profit which works to counter litigation by non-practising entities or so-called ‘patent trolls’, has launched a new initiative aimed at addressing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) issues in the IP industry. The new initiative—Advancing Diversity Across […]
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 poverty, hunger and systemic oppression. As a Black teenager, I was marginalised because of the […]
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 to boost diversity, equity and inclusion in the intellectual property industry.
The companies, which are […]
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 LOT — set up to help improve how the tech world and […]
LOT Network, Amazon, Cruise, The Walt Disney Company, Google, Meta, Microsoft Join Forces to Spearhead IP Diversity Initiative
LOT Network Inc. with Amazon, Cruise, The Walt Disney Company, Google, Meta, and Microsoft have partnered to form a new initiative called Advancing Diversity Across Patent Teams (ADAPT) to address diversity, equity, and inclusion […]
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 membership to create a superior, shared perspective on the 5G cellular SEP landscape.
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 Heiden and Lew Zeretzki
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.
This in turn has resulted in more patent assertion entities (PAEs), which are often called patent […]
Casa Systems joins LOT Network in a proactive measure against the threat of patent trolls
Innovative cloud-native technology leader recognizes the need to protect its innovation and patented technology through its membership in the non-profit organization
Casa Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CASA), a leading provider of cloud-native software and physical technology solutions for wireless, cable […]
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 builds on Cipher’s existing role of monitoring the patents owned by LOT […]
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, do not report on patent risk until there is a significant issue. There are many reasons given for this including the absence of reliable data and the lack […]
