Posts Tagged: NPE’s
Why the Unified Patents Model Would Not Work in China
Unified Patents is a relatively new form of patent troll that works as a “Troll of Trolls” or “ToT.” They file IPRs (inter-partes reexamination requests) to kill …
Clearing the Underbrush: How to Fight Low Quality Patents Related to Commoditized Technology that Threaten Innovation
IP departments are often forced to spend their limited budget defending patent troll lawsuits targeted at the base computing and service layers instead of where it should …
Does Patented Intellectual Property Still Matter? Yes, Depending on Who You Are
If Bill Hewlett and David Packard were just starting in their garage, they might be wise not to waste money acquiring them... An individual inventor, or SME, …
Why NPEs are necessary for China to dominate its domestic chip industry
NPEs are uniquely positioned to help China by attacking foreign entities to clear the way for Chinese companies by exerting pressure in ways that only NPEs can. …
Doing the Math on Patent Trolls: The U.S. patent system is a most efficient government program
Patents and the innovators who own them do not “cost” the U.S. economy tens of billions of dollars each year. This claim has been repeatedly and …
A Toxic Brew – and the Cure for the U.S. Patent System
The Supreme Court has run two areas of technology, bio and software, into a legal ditch from which there is no escape.... It should be no surprise …
Don’t Feed the Trolls: Practicality in View of the FTC’s Report on Patent Assertion Entities
The Norwegian fairy tale “Three Billy Goats Gruff” was far ahead of its time and the moral of that story has a very relevant, modern application. In …
A string of successful settlements by Network-1 undermines FTC’s definition of ‘litigation PAEs’
Anyone who has followed recent developments in the U.S. patent landscape, however, might note something interesting occurring in this particular case. According to the recent patent …
The FTC’s PAE Study: Doing More Harm Than Good
Basing policy recommendations on no evidence, or at best anecdotal evidence, has great potential to do more harm than good…especially when some of the missing evidence …
Why should litigation costs of the infringer be relevant to determine if a license is fair or just a nuisance?
Why should the costs of the tortfeasing infringer be relevant in determining whether the extracted value from a settlement is fair? The fact that law firms charge …
Lies, Damn Lies and Media Bias: Fortune Misrepresents FTC Report on Patent Assertion Entities
Simply stated, Fortune is wrong. The FTC report did not have harsh words for patent trolls. In fact, the FTC had harsh words for those who use …
Ars Technica reports confuse “patent troll” with legitimate patent owners enforcing property rights
To be fair, the coverage by Ars Technica doesn’t take the same vituperative tone as other voices who have concerns related to abuses of the U.…
Will Yahoo Feed the Patent Trolls?
Yahoo’s proposed auction of the Excalibur portfolio is likely to be the largest sale of computer-related patents since the Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Int’l …
Benefit of the Secondary Patent Market to Startups
The validity of secondary markets for a variety of goods and services is never questioned. Securities are sold and resold many times after their initial offering, homes …
FTC report on PAEs could have an outsized effect on U.S. patent reform debate
The information the FTC has been collecting regarding patent assertion entities is extensive. Along with standard corporate information, the FTC is making a survey of each patent …
