Posts Tagged: intellectual ventures
The Great Escape: Efficient Infringers Increasingly Seek to Abuse Antitrust Law
Last week the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued an important decision that might be easy to overlook. In Intellectual Ventures I LLC …
Tracking Buyer and Seller Behavior: 2018 Patent Market Report
As a buyer, tracking the behaviors of sellers, both in aggregate and individually, allows you to operationalize your buying activities. This is especially true for repeat sellers, …
Patent Assertion Entities Invest Twice as Much in R&D as Major U.S. Tech Firms
Rather than frustrate innovation, Maurer and Haber found that patent assertion entities have research and development expenditures which, on average, are twice that of U.S. high …
Intellectual Ventures v. T-Mobile: Summary Judgment of Non-Infringement Vacated Due to Incorrect Claim Construction
In claim construction analyses, the plain and ordinary meaning of a claim term will not be narrowed by statements in the prosecution history, unless those statements clearly …
CAFC vacates Summary Judgment entered against Intellectual Ventures
On Tuesday, September 4th, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a precedential decision in Intellectual Ventures I LLC v. T-Mobile USA, Inc., et. al., …
Federal Circuit Vacates PTAB Decision for Failure to Consider Ericsson Reply Brief
In its decision, the Federal Circuit noted that the PTAB is entitled to strike arguments improperly raised in a reply brief under 37 CFR § 42.23(b). However, the appellate …
Blackbird Technologies to Appeal Ineligibility Ruling in Cloudflare Patent Infringement Litigation
“One thing that I find curious is that Cloudflare claims to have 150 patent assets on the same type of technology,” Verlander said. Such assets include U.S. …
Federal Circuit holds that due process is not violated when PTAB employs ‘surprise’ claim construction
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a non-precedential decision in Intellectual Ventures II, LLC v. Ericsson, Inc. (2016-1739, 2016-1740, 2016-1741) directed to …
An entirely screwed up way of viewing the world of innovation
When a product or process worth stealing is created the party that is considered the innovator is the thief and the party that is considered to be …
Other Barks for Wednesday, March 15th, 2017
A well-known patent monetization firm jumps back into the brokered patent market in 2016’s fourth quarter. A federal judge in New York allows arguments over whether American …
Facebook, IV and Nintendo lead in VR headset patents ahead of Google, Sony and Intel
Although the patent space surrounding VR headsets still looks very open, it’s interesting to note that Nintendo has an early lead over other top tech firms …
The patent views of Peter Thiel and what they mean for the Trump Administration
Although the tech industry is big in America, the industry itself was not big on the idea of a Trump presidency. Trump, however, did have one very …
It is time for Judge Mayer to Step Down from the Federal Circuit
Simply stated, the industry and the public deserve better than Judge Mayer. His anti-patent views so cloud his judgment that he twists, exaggerates and misrepresents in order …
Negotiating with Intellectual Ventures (IV)? What about their other funds?
This post provides a practical approach for companies to handle the licensing of Intellectual Venture’s (IV’s) smaller in-house funds (ISF & IDF) during a negotiation …
As U.S. makes it harder for innovation, companies must diversify overseas to Europe, China
“At the end of the day innovation is important,” Jung explained before he lamented the fact that the United States “seems to be making it harder and …
