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Patent Troll is a pejorative term used to describe persons or entities who aggresively assert patent ownership rights and typically do not manufacture or make use of the underlying patented inventions. Often,... more +
Patent Troll is a pejorative term used to describe persons or entities who aggresively assert patent ownership rights and typically do not manufacture or make use of the underlying patented inventions. Often, patent trolls exist solely to aggregate and litigate patents. Many in the technology industry claim that patent trolls stifle innovation and have urged Congress to combat these practices by passing comprehensive patent reform. less -
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[Webinar] 2024 North Carolina CLE Institute - February 9th, 9:00 am - 2:00 pm ET

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Join us for the 2024 North Carolina CLE Institute, Hosted by Williams Mullen, a virtual legal education program designed to provide timely legal guidance and help you to secure your CLE credits....more

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NPE Showcase – Leigh Rothschild

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Most nonpracticing entities are private firms owned by patent attorneys, investors, or a combination of the two. In other cases, NPEs do everything they can to obscure the identify of the true owner. And in virtually all...more

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NPE Showcase – VirnetX

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VirnetX is a classic example of an NPE that does not qualify as a “patent troll.” How can you tell? Patent trolls leverage the litigation system to negotiate settlements for less than the cost of defending against a lawsuit....more

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NPE Showcase – Web 2.0 Technologies, LLC

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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”). This installment will focus on a company named Web 2.0 Technologies, LLC....more

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NPE Showcase – InvesTrex, LLC

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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”). This installment will focus on a company named InvesTrex, LLC....more

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NPE Showcase: NPE Litigation in 2023 – What to Expect

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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”). This installment will focus on NPE litigation as a whole, and what to...more

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NPE Showcase – Ridgeview IP

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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”). This installment will focus on a company named Ridgeview IP....more

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NPE Showcase – Foothills IP

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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”). This installment will focus on a company named Foothills IP....more

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Eighth Circuit Defends Use of Term “Patent Troll,” Vacates Injunction against Infringement Defendant

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The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit vacated an injunction restraining defendants from engaging in certain allegedly harassing conduct because there was no evidence tying the defendants to the alleged misconduct and...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Delaware Court Denies Motion to Dismiss NPE’s Direct Infringement Claims Despite Sparse Allegations

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The number of Non-Practicing Entities (NPE) cases has increased in Delaware by almost 10% over the last year. If you or a client finds yourself the target of an NPE patent litigation suit, the next question is usually what...more

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[Webinar] Don’t Feed the Trolls: How and When to Respond to Patent Demand Letters - January 11th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST

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A number of small providers are receiving patent demand letters with a settlement or licensing offer to avoid litigation. How should you respond? Should you respond? Many of these letters are a typical part of the playbook of...more

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VLSI Technology, LLC v. Intel Corp. (W.D. Texas 2021)

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There is an undercurrent in patent law these days that litigation favors the defendant.  Rather than contending infringement of a few claims of one patent, plaintiffs are now advised to assert multiple claims across several...more

Kidon IP

The Real Empty Suit? Unified Patent’s Reverse Trolling Take 2

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It seems that Unified Patent’s year plus PR campaign against HEVC assets in the US has run out of steam. While their COO’s incoherent rants about Velos Media may be amusing, as I detailed earlier the campaign was misguided...more

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A Step-by-Step Approach to Patent Subject Matter Eligibility Reform

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There is a belief in some quarters that the most significant barrier to patent subject matter eligibility reform is an implacable opposition by companies in the high tech sector because those companies are convinced that the...more

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Sound View Escalates Patent Assault on Open Source Software with New Wave of Lawsuits

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Sound View Innovations, an IP licensing company that is quickly becoming a prolific Non-Practicing Entity (NPE), has ramped up its litigation campaign by filing seven more lawsuits in 2019. Similar to the patent lawsuits that...more

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Apple Closed Two of Its Stores in Eastern Texas. The Reasoning May Surprise You - How patent laws can affect key business...

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Apple, the technology giant which runs successful Apple Stores all over the world, announced that it will close its only two stores in eastern Texas by Friday, April 12. Apple, however, did not announce why it was closing...more

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Massachusetts State Senator Files Second Attempt at Bill to Address Bad Faith Patent Infringement Assertions

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On Wednesday, January 16, 2019, Massachusetts State Senator Eric Lesser introduced Bill S.D. 1007 (S.D. 1007) which provides for legal actions and recovery from entities that allege infringement in bad faith against...more

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Tinnus Enterprises, LLC v. Telebrands Corp. (Fed. Cir. 2018)

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When the PTAB Attacks! - In the past few years, the public's perception of the patent system in the United States has been at a low point. One of the causes of this lack of confidence in the system has been the increase...more

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Cloud Computing Patent Litigation Trends – Competitor Cases, Open Source Targets, Cloud Customers

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Since launching Cloud IPQ last year, we have focused on the intersection of cloud computing and intellectual property with a particular emphasis on the increasing number of patent lawsuits filed against cloud computing...more

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IP+T: Intelligence Newsletter - December 2017

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If you own trademark registrations in the United States, you are required to make certain filings with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) to keep your trademark registration(s) alive. In particular, prior to the sixth...more

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Fighting Patent Trolls

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When it comes to suppressing U.S. competiveness, no one does it better than patent trolls. A 2017 study concluded that 5,100 patent infringement lawsuits were filed in 2016. Patent Trolls account for about 67% of those. ...more

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GEMSA’s Patent Onslaught Against Cloud Computing Customers

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Global Equity Management (SA) Pty. Ltd. (“GEMSA”), a foreign non-practicing entity (“NPE”) organized under the laws of Australia, filed almost 40 patent lawsuits in five batches in 2015 and 2016. The majority of these...more

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Cloud Printing Companies in a Jam, Face Battle with Patent Trolls

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Since 2013, Charles C. Freeny III, Bryan E. Freeny, and James P. Freeny (“the Freenys”) have filed more than 50 patent infringement cases, all in the Eastern District of Texas, against a variety of technology companies who...more

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My Company Can be Sued Where?: Supreme Court Resolves Some Questions of Where Businesses May Be Sued for Patent Infringement but...

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After a long period in which the U.S. Supreme Court considered intellectual property issues only occasionally, the Court has frequently focused on intellectual property matters in recent years, reflecting the increasing...more

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U.S. Supreme Court Upends Nearly 30 Years of Patent Venue Law

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Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its much-anticipated decision in TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC officially reinstating a more restrictive standard for where patent holders can file patent...more

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