LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 14, 2021

That’s the question posed by a recent spate of lawsuits brought against Apple and Google by Jawbone Innovations LLC alleging patent infringement on the part of the tech giants. But what if a failed company lived or, or at least its intellectual property?

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JD Supra Law

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Idaho AG Lawrence Wasden has filed motions to intervene [Law360 paywall] in two related patent lawsuits.

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IP Law 360

AUGUST 8, 2024

urged a Texas federal judge to punish a Texas company that Valve called a "patent troll" in its sanctions motion for allegedly re-arguing "frivolous" legal theories and purposely taking its barcode patent infringement suit to an allegedly improper venue. Video game maker and online game store operator Valve Corp.

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IP Watchdog

JULY 29, 2021

The Patent Infringer Lobby has ramped up banging the drum about “patent quality.” They dedicated a week-long campaign to questioning "patent quality,” which its constituents regard as a huge problem. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director Andrei Iancu left the building.

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JD Supra Law

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The assault on banks and financial institutions by non-practicing entities or “patent trolls” continues. Two weeks ago, we discussed a number of patent infringement suits being filed by Auth Token. based on their support of the mobile payment and digital wallet service, Samsung Pay.

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JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Many of these letters are a typical part of the playbook of entities that have been variously called “non-practicing entities” (NPEs) or “patent trolls.” Join us to learn about patent infringement claims, NPEs and other entities who send demand letters, the litigation process, and things you should consider when deciding on an.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Individuals and companies commonly engage in the strategic purchasing of critical blocking patent portfolios. For example, the rise of patent trolls, who litigate cheaply-bought patents, use the IP system as a legal weapon. Moreover, damage demands in litigation cases involving IP are rising.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 11, 2023

Others have accused him of being a “patent troll” based on the broad interpretation of his patents and his litigious enforcement activity. His entities have filed a whopping 1,249 patent infringement lawsuits with 23 of those pending. This certainly qualifies as a high volume patent troll.

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Patently-O

JUNE 5, 2022

Tod Tumey is a Houston-based patent attorney who represents Voice Tech Corp. Back in 2021, VoiceTech sued Mycroft for patent infringement. The PTO has apparently determined that the asserted claims are not patentable, but that case will be appealed to the Federal Circuit. Tod Tumey v. Mycroft AI ( 8th Cir.

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Greenspoon Marder LLP

OCTOBER 7, 2016

On September 30, 2016, a federal jury in Texas ordered Apple to pay $302 million in damages to VirnetX for violating two of its patents, including patented software used in Apple’s FaceTime and iMessage applications.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 11, 2022

This is the latest in the series titled “NPE Showcase,” where we discuss high-volume non-practicing entities (or as some call them, “patent trolls”). Many high-volume NPEs are subsidiaries of a larger company that segregates liability by creating separate LLCs for each subset of their patent portfolio.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

This is the latest in the series titled “NPE Showcase,” where we discuss high-volume non-practicing entities (or as some call them, “patent trolls”). Sockeye owns a pair of patents broadly related to controlling a “display device” with a mobile phone.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

This is the latest in the series titled “NPE Showcase,” where we discuss high-volume non-practicing entities (or as some call them, “patent trolls”). “Everyone infringes” is an NPE’s dream. Not all NPEs are patent trolls. [2] Business was booming. But is this the case now?

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 9, 2021

In 2001, six years before the iPhone appeared, a futurist named Ray Kurzweil wrote that humankind would cram 20,000 years of technological progress into the century that had just begun.

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Intepat

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Challenges of Patent Enforcement in a Globalized World: While globalization offers opportunities for expanding patent protection, it also presents challenges, particularly in enforcing patents across different legal systems. This will reduce administrative burdens and enhance cross-border patent collaboration.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 16, 2022

The chaotic state of the world today makes it increasingly difficult for American companies to compete. Russian hostility has the democratic world on edge, U.S. inflation is at a 40-year high and hitting consumers hard, and China continues its aggressive push for economic and technological dominance.

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