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Nokia and Amazon: A Patent Dispute Reshaping Tech Collaboration

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In the autumn of 2023, a storm brewed between two tech titans. Nokia, the Finnish telecommunications stalwart, filed lawsuits across four continents, alleging that Amazon’s streaming services—Prime Video and Twitch—had woven...more

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Using Global Patent Trends in Smart Manufacturing to Develop an Informed and Effective IP Strategy 

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In today’s global economy, product research and development (R&D) has historically been concentrated in the U.S. and China. However, these efforts are beginning to decentralize and spread into new regions, such as Japan and...more

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Not Every Open Source Cloud Has A Silver Lining

The use of open source software and cloud-based computing individually are growing at a rapid pace. The use of open source in cloud deployments is also growing. Until recently, the OSS license issues with cloud deployments...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Amazon Strikes Back against PersonalWeb’s Customer Lawsuits Targeting AWS And Open Source Ruby On Rails

Since 2010, PersonalWeb Technologies has filed a total of 79 district court cases against a variety of technology companies in the cloud computing space asserting its patent portfolio. ...more

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BMC Software Launches Patent Strike Against Cloud Services Of Competitor Cherwell Software

In another example of a competitor based patent lawsuit involving cloud computing, BMC Software filed a major patent campaign last year against its key competitor Cherwell Software. ...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Rosebud Asserts Growing Patent Portfolio Against Salesforce’s Quip

In November 2017, Rosebud filed a patent lawsuit against Salesforce asserting that Salesforce’s Quip product allegedly infringes two of Rosebud’s patents. Quip is a popular cloud-based collaborative software suite built for...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Financial Services Giant Fidelity Targeted On Open Source Software Usage

Fidelity is the latest target of Sound View Innovations, an intellectual property licensing company, for its use of several open source software components in Fidelity’s systems and platforms. Sound View filed its lawsuit...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Cloud Security Firm Zscaler Faces Patent Litigation

Over the past year, Symantec has filed two lawsuits asserting over a dozen patents against Zscaler’s cloud security platform, claiming in its Complaints that newcomer Zscaler “has gained momentum in the marketplace through...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Juniper Faces Blue Spike’s “Assembly-Line Litigation Campaign”

In January 2017, Blue Spike, LLC (“Blue Spike”) filed what has been described as the largest patent infringement case in the U.S. Blue Spike asserted 26 patents containing 656 claims against 113 products owned by Juniper...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

GEMSA’s Patent Onslaught Against Cloud Computing Customers

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

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Federal Circuit Vacates Judge Gilstrap’s Controversial Venue Test

The Eastern District of Texas has been the hotbed of patent ligation for years, and that is undoubtedly threatened in light of the Supreme Court’s decision on venue in TC Heartland.  But the Eastern District clearly won’t go...more

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