Posts Tagged: MPHJ Technology Investments
More Dreck on Patent Trolls from Attorneys Cozying Up to Silicon Valley
Principe and Rudroff unfortunately regurgitate much of the misguided dialogue, which has done nothing to serve this country except to decimate its patent system in recent years. …
Loan fraud charges filed by SEC target notable patent troll Jay Mac Rust
The patent trolling by MPHJ and owner, Texas lawyer Jay Mac Rust, are well known. But now the SEC is going after Jay Mac Rust in federal …
FTC Approves Final Order Barring PAE From Using Deceptive Tactics
The order bars the company, MPHJ Technology Investments, LLC, and its law firm from making deceptive representations when asserting patent rights. The settlement with MPHJ, announced in …
Nebraska to Pay $725K Because of AG Meddling in Patent Case
The United States District Court for the District of Nebraska ordered outgoing Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning to pay $325,000 for attorneys fees and costs to ActiveLight, Inc. …
FTC Bars Patent Assertion Entity From Using Deceptive Tactics
The settlement with MPHJ is the first time the FTC has taken action using its consumer protection authority against a patent assertion entity (PAE). PAEs are companies …
Dear Patent Troll: Drop Dead
In 2012, Mr. Rust bought five patents from an inventor named Laurence Klein for exactly $1. He then set up 101 separate limited liability companies (LLCs), each with bizarre six …
NY Attorney General Settles Investigation into Patent Troll
MPHJ employed a strategy of targeting small and medium-sized businesses, which in and of itself is not legally problematic. The fact that MPHJ acquired patents of dubious …
