Posts Tagged: Google
CAFC Vacates PTAB Decision to Uphold Conversant Wireless Patent Challenged by Google, LG
On Tuesday, November 20th, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a nonprecedential decision in Google LLC v. Conversant Wireless Licensing, which vacated a decision …
PTAB 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 …
Serial and Duplicative Petitions at PTAB by Apple, Other Tech Giants Flout Congressional Intent
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 …
MIT Prior Art Archive: An Overstated Solution to Patent Examination
According to statistics provided by the USPTO, since the beginning of fiscal year 2012, the Office has received a total of only 1,584 third-party submissions of prior art for …
The 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 …
Rule 36 Affirmances at the Federal Circuit – Week of October 8, 2018
During the week of October 8, 2018, there were five cases involving patents that were decided without an opinion as a result of Rule 36 affirmances at the United States …
Waymo Patent Asserted Against Uber Suffers Setback in Reexamination
he U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a final office action in an ex parte reexamination of a patent owned by Google self-driving car development subsidiary …
Open Invention Network: A Mission to Maintain Open-Source Status for Linux Systems
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 …
Google Uses the Brokered Patent Market for the First Time to Sell Lithium-Ion Battery Patents
Tech giant Google had conducted its first-ever sale of patent assets in the U.S. brokered patent market. Data collected and provided to Bloomberg from the Richardson …
A Decade Of US Patent Reform Must Be Undone
How ironic is it that the infringer lobby – the very people trying to weaken the patent system and who ignore the patent rights of others through a …
Tang and Van Slyke Inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame for Development of OLED Display Technology
Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) are semiconductor films composed of an organic compound having electroluminescent properties which utilize an electrical current to emit light. The technology has wide …
LOT Network surpasses 275 members, fighting PAE patent litigation
LOT Network markets itself as a non-profit consortium, which offers its members a legal mechanism affording them protection from patent assertion entities (PAEs) and immunizes its members …
Tech Giants Lead the Way on Fintech Patents, Ahead of Banks
British patent data insights firm Cipher recently released an IP strategy report that provides a look at how many firms are patenting technologies in the hopes of …
Federal Circuit Vacates PTAB’s Determination of CBM Patent After Appeal by Apple and Google
On Wednesday, July 11th, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a decision in Apple v. ContentGuard Holdings vacating a decision by the Patent Trial …
Oracle America v. Google, Free Java: Fair or Unfair?
The Federal Circuit recently decided the case of Oracle America v. Google Inc. To “attract Java developers to build apps for Android,” Google copied the declaring code, …
