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Litigation as a Source of Profit? Non-Practicing Entities and Patent Litigation

IPilogue

The first kind, academic institutions, acquire patents to protect the research work of their faculty and researchers while licensing others to use the results of the research produced without commodifying the patent. They do not practice, develop, manufacture, or otherwise commercialize the patent.

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NPE Showcase – Sockeye Licensing

LexBlog IP

This is the latest in the series titled “NPE Showcase,” where we discuss high-volume non-practicing entities (or as some call them, “patent trolls”). This installment will focus on a company named Sockeye Licensing TX, LLC. NPEs are also known to limit their license when suing software companies.

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Osgoode Welcomes Professor Ruth L. Okediji: “The Paradox of Intellectual Property Injustice”

IPilogue

Emily Xiang is an IPilogue Writer, a Senior Fellow with the IP Innovation Clinic, and a 3L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where she teaches contracts, international IP, patents, copyright, and courses on Biblical Law. Professor Ruth L. Okediji is the Jeremiah Smith Jr.