Kodak Sells Patents to Intellectual Ventures, RPX for $525 Million
Eastman Kodak Company, the once mighty technology juggernaut that has fallen on hard times and found itself fighting to get out of bankruptcy, has completed a series of agreements that successfully...
View ArticleFortune Magazine’s Unusual Position on Non-Practicing Entities
In a magazine with the name Fortune—devoted to capitalism and free markets—it is surprising to see an article that would promote closed markets and limited ownership of property within its pages. I...
View ArticleRPX says NPE patent litigation increased in 2015, Eastern District of Texas...
Patent risk solutions provider RPX yesterday released its 2015 NPE Activity: Highlights report, which offers a first look at trends in patent litigation activity for 2015. According to RPX, NPE...
View ArticleFederal Circuit vacates PTAB over error in determining real party in interest...
The Federal Circuit found that the PTAB didn’t meaningfully examine Salesforce’s relationship with RPX and the nature of RPX as an entity that helps its clients extricate themselves from patent...
View ArticleOpen Invention Network: A Mission to Maintain Open-Source Status for Linux...
As Jaime Siegel, OIN’s Global Director of Licensing, notes, OIN is able to grant free membership to companies joining the consortium thanks to the efforts of eight full-funding member companies which...
View ArticleThe USPTO Must End Repeated and Concerted Patent Attacks
Why is it that innovators such as Universities and independent inventors are caricatured as patent trolls while entities such as Unified Patents and RPX, who exist for the sole purpose of destroying...
View ArticlePatent Assertion Entities Invest Twice as Much in R&D as Major U.S. Tech Firms
Rather than frustrate innovation, Maurer and Haber found that patent assertion entities have research and development expenditures which, on average, are twice that of U.S. high tech firms... Public...
View ArticleSerial and Duplicative Petitions at PTAB by Apple, Other Tech Giants Flout...
The Alliance of U.S. Startups and Inventors for Jobs (USIJ) recently released a report detailing the organization’s research into serial attacks on high quality patents at the Patent Trial and Appeal...
View ArticleThe PTAB Promotes Petitioner Promiscuity
Why in the world would the federal government want to be an active participant in invalidating patents that the USPTO grants? Does the federal government believe that an insufficient number of patents...
View ArticlePTAB Institutes IPR, Finds Unified Patents is Sole Real Party in Interest
On Tuesday, November 27th, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a redacted version of a decision to institute an inter partes review (IPR) proceeding petitioned by Unified Patents to...
View ArticleThe Year in Patents: The Top 10 Patent Stories from 2018
Before proceeding it is worth noting two things. First, that my list focuses on specific and identifiable events. Second, there are a number of stories worth mentioning, but which just missed the cut...
View ArticleStandard Essential Patents: Statistics and Solutions to the Real Party in...
As I noted in part one of my talk at the IPWatchdog Patent Masters Symposium, the validity statistics for SEPs do not look very good at first glance. Thus, according to a 2017 PricewaterhouseCoopers...
View ArticleSPIF Standard Launched to Help Reliably Identify Patent Assets in M&A and...
Major mergers typically make for attention-grabbing news headlines but many legal professionals working at the ground floor of finalizing these mergers know that the path of M&A activity is fraught...
View ArticleSalesforce’s Abusive Post Grant Tactics Demonstrate USPTO Dysfunction
The issue of who is the real party in interest in an inter partes review (IPR) filed at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is a particularly thorny matter. When IPRs were introduced, patent...
View ArticleSalesforce Reexams Vacated Because It Was Real-Party-in-Interest in RPX IPR
One of the most intriguing, and frankly long overdue, reforms the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) needs to consider is putting an end to the practice of for-profit entities like...
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