The Public Should Know Who Profits From Patent Troll Lawsuits

Even people who get sued over patents often can’t figure out who is demanding money from them. We’re glad to see the issue of patent transparency come back to Congress, in the form of a recently introduced bill called the “Pride in Patent...

Moot Court: Aka Spinning Class at the Law School

by Dennis Crouch We do a moot court competition every year in my basic patent law course at the University …

New Huawei transaction with top US patent asserter revealed | IAM

Dozens of communications patents changing hands in latest monetisation move from Chinese telecoms giant

Senators’ complaints about Albright polarise in-house

Counsel at Salesforce, Bitmovin and two NPEs disagree on whether Tillis and Leahy were right to take aim at the Western District of Texas

Context Directions Patent Likely Indefinite — Unified Patents

Context Directions, a Jeffrey M. Gross-controlled NPE who had asserted two patents in the Western District of Texas ostensibly related to detecting the context in which a mobile device is used, recently had the USPTO enter a substantially narrow...

Bristows FRAND Tracker Update: Optis v Apple Trial F

Further to my earlier post on the important decision in Trial F of Optis v Apple (here), the Bristows FRAND Tracker has now been updated with details…

Fedora Council is Just a Mouthpiece and Instrument of IBM Management, It Doesn't Speak For (What Used to Be) Fedora Project/Community

Fedora is quickly distancing itself from the notion that it's really a community, as opposed to a pet project of IBM (which IBM barely cares about; or less and less over time)

The Public Should Know Who Profits From Patent Troll Lawsuits

Even people who get sued over patents often can’t figure out who is demanding money from them. We’re glad to see the issue of patent transparency come back to Congress, in the form of a recently introduced bill called the “Pride in Patent...

Assertion Of Comms Patents Against Auto Manufacturers Continues - Intellectual Property - UK

Another week and another patent suit against a major auto manufacturer. This action by Intellectual Ventures against Toyota follows on from a recent patent action by Avanci against Ford.

UK Court's 'Willingness' Decision In Optis v Apple To Be Appealed - Intellectual Property - UK

Only a week after the judgment that a party who has been held to infringe a valid and essential patent must provide an irrevocable commitment to take whatever FRAND licence the court determines or accept an injunction...

Federal Circuit 'in good hands' with Len Stark, says O'Malley

Len Stark, who stepped down as chief judge of the District Court for the District of Delaware in July after seven years, has been tapped for the appeals court

Leahy, Tillis launch WDTX attack; $650mn CRISPR IP deal; Merck UN covid licence agreement; Samsung hit by Russia injunction; InterDigital strikes gold; plus much more | IAM

Get ready for the new working week with a summary of all the stories posted on the IAM platform over the past seven days

High Court Finds That Defendants Had Not Infringed Telecoms Packet Switching Patent And That The Patent Was Not Essential - Intellectual Property - UK

Sisvel said that the defendants, without a FRAND licence from Sisvel, had infringed the Patent.

Senators Push To Study “Unstable” Patent Law, While Patent Trolls Cheer Them On

Led by a group of senators that spent much of 2019 trying to change U.S. patent law for the worse, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) has agreed to study the “current state of patent jurisprudence.” The details of the study make it clear...

How IV’s new auto patent offensive differs from past forays into the space | IAM

Intellectual Ventures sued GM, Honda and Toyota just six days after fund COO Arvin Patel laid out his views on the sector in IAM