IP Law 360

AUGUST 19, 2021

A North Carolina federal judge shot down a constitutional challenge Thursday to a state law that criminalizes patent licensing demand letters sent in bad faith, rejecting a licensing company's arguments that the law violates the rights to free speech and equal protection.

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IP Law 360

MAY 28, 2024

s argument in its fight at the Federal Circuit that Idaho's law barring "bad faith" allegations of patent infringement is constitutional. Attorneys general from 27 states, along with tech industry lobbying groups, have thrown their support behind Micron Technology Inc.'s

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IP Close Up

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The T-word, patent “troll,” has been used widely over the past 20 years to negatively predispose potential licensees, lawmakers, the courts, as well Continue reading Words matter.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 13, 2024

Efforts by high-tech companies to undermine both the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act of 2023 and the Promoting and Respecting Economically Vital American Innovation Leadership (PREVAIL) Act ramped up this week, with a joint letter sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee by a number of tech industry organizations on Monday and a campaign launched (..)

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 1, 2024

A cryptocurrency collective said Tuesday it has inked a deal with Unified Patents to help stop "patent trolls" from registering intellectual property that risks hampering blockchain innovation.

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IP Law 360

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

million in legal costs it incurred defending a patent suit over its coronavirus vaccine, saying Moderna is wrongly trying to paint it as "a pernicious patent troll." Alnylam Pharmaceuticals has shot back at Moderna's request for about $2.8

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Kashishipr

MAY 5, 2021

The term ‘Patent Troll’ originated in 1994 in an educational video by Paula Natasha Chavez called the ‘Patents Video.’ ’ A patent troll is a term used for describing a company that uses Patent Infringement claims to win arguments and court judgments for profit or to stifle competition.

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The Illusion of More

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

And speaking of tangential details, I noticed that Justice Sotomayor inadvertently used the term “patent trolls” during her brief interaction […]. H&M Hennes & Mauritz, L.P., a lawsuit bogged down in tiresome and tangential details, but which is important for independent creators. The post To Err is Human: Unicolors v.

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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

This week in Other Barks & Bites: the Cloud Native Computing Foundation launches a patent troll bounty program to protect the open-source computing community; the European Patent Office announces Russia Patent Requests will be denied as part of sanctions; and Sweden becomes the first country in the world to file a trademark for its name.

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Intepat

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Introduction Patent trolls are entities that do not actively develop their inventions but instead acquire patent rights for obvious inventions to prevent others from working on them or to collect licensing fees. In a way, patent trolls serve a purpose, much like lawyers.

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IPilogue

MAY 31, 2022

This Network protects members from patent trolls’ claims, these ‘patent trolls’ are described as companies that bring patent claims for profit and to supress competition. Concern with the US patent system. Critics have raised concern that this patent-owner friendly policy attracts patent trolls.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 24, 2022

The second kind, private parties, often use the patents they acquire for profit through damage or settlement awards, or royalties and licensing rights. NPEs who acquire patents solely for profit (and not commercialization) are also called “Patent Trolls” or “ patent assertion entities.”

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JD Supra Law

OCTOBER 12, 2022

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 Stormborn Technologies, an IP Edge entity. By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The state of Washington can pursue a lawsuit targeting a patent-assertion company under a 2015 law intended to stop "patent trolls" from trying to extort settlements from small businesses, a Seattle federal judge ruled Friday, rejecting the company's arguments that the law violates its right to free speech.

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IP Law 360

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Nimitz Technologies — an alleged stalking horse for so-called patent troll IP-Edge — plans on going to the U.S. Supreme Court to fight a Delaware federal judge's headline-grabbing "inquisition" into its business practices, asking an appeals court to freeze that investigation until it files with the justices.

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IP Law 360

MAY 18, 2023

House of Representatives members on Thursday introduced for the third time a bill that aims to restrict the ability of patent licensing companies to file suits at the U.S. International Trade Commission, saying the legislation would help protect American businesses.

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IP Law 360

JANUARY 27, 2023

was named chairman of the House subcommittee overseeing intellectual property on Friday, returning him to a leadership post on a panel where he has been critical of what he has described as abusive litigation by companies he calls "patent trolls." Darrell Issa, R-Calif.,

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IP Law 360

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Idaho's attorney general told a federal court on Tuesday that his office would be moving to defend the constitutionality of a largely untested law passed in Boise to let companies use federal courts in the state to punish so-called patent trolls.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 15, 2022

For example, Google was a key player in 2013 in starting the Open Patent Non-Assertion Pledge (to not sue on open-source software). Google was also instrumental in the beginnings of the License On Transfer network (which helps members who have been sued by “patent trolls”).

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IP Law 360

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Video game patent holder Leigh Rothschild, his company Rothschild Broadcast Distribution Systems LLC and his legal team from Meyler Legal PLLC cannot escape a federal suit alleging they violated the state of Washington's anti-troll laws in pursuing bogus patent claims against video game maker and online game store operator Valve Corp.

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IP Law 360

JULY 24, 2023

E-commerce software brand Shopify doubled-down on its legal attack on the business practices of IP Edge, urging a San Antonio federal judge to reject a Waco magistrate judge's holding that an allegedly affiliated licensing company does not have to participate in what Shopify's lawyers have called a campaign to "expose patent trolls."

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Patently-O

AUGUST 8, 2021

Recent Headlines in the IP World: Mikey Campbell: Apple Challenges Patent Troll Targeting Maps Navigation (Source: Apple Insider). Blake Brittain: Apple Must Face Apple Watch Patent Claims, Fed Circ. Affirms (Source: Reuters).

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IAM Magazine

APRIL 8, 2022

In first public appearance since stepping down from the Federal Circuit, former judge speaks about the US Supreme Court’s record in patent cases, the effects of eBay and threats to Bayh-Dole.

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IAM Magazine

APRIL 8, 2022

In first public appearance since stepping down from the Federal Circuit, former judge speaks about the US Supreme Court’s record in patent cases, the effects of eBay and threats to Bayh-Dole.

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JD Supra Law

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Idaho AG Lawrence Wasden has filed motions to intervene [Law360 paywall] in two related patent lawsuits.

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IP Law 360

MAY 6, 2024

A California federal judge has found that Taiwanese chipmaker Realtek can't use the federal courts to sue one of its major rivals for allegedly using a "bounty" to fund "patent troll" litigation against it because that doesn't break any federal antitrust laws.

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JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 9, 2022

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 court where many patent trolls file suit, the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

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JD Supra Law

APRIL 14, 2023

VirnetX is a classic example of an NPE that does not qualify as a “patent troll.” Patent trolls leverage the litigation system to negotiate settlements for less than the cost of defending against a lawsuit. VirnetX, on the other hand, licenses its patents for eight and sometimes nine figures. How can you tell?

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IAM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Saturday Opinion: North Carolina’s Abusive Patent Assertions Act survived a constitutional challenge this week because it puts focus where it should be – on bad faith behaviour, not business structure.

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IPilogue

MARCH 1, 2023

However, since the plaintiff in this matter had not yet practiced its invention and had a history of procuring patents for their licensing program, the plaintiff’s conduct in this case raised concerns about whether injunctive relief should be denied on equitable grounds because the plaintiff may be characterized as a “patent troll.”

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The IPKat

AUGUST 28, 2021

Our SpecialKat Chijioke Okorie published an instructive post on South Africa’s patent laws and how the absence of a definition for ‘inventor’ enabled South African authorities to register the DABUS patent.

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IP Law 360

AUGUST 20, 2024

Litigation business Future Link says the latest version of an antitrust lawsuit in California federal court from Taiwanese chipmaker Realtek over claims of a conspiracy with a different Taiwanese chipmaker to fund purported "patent troll" lawsuits is just more "litigation over litigation."

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IP Law 360

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

District Judge Rodney Gilstrap has decided that "public admonition" is a more appropriate punishment than legal fines for a lawyer whose client was called a "patent troll" by opponents, ordering the attorney to "relearn the fundamentals of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure."

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 9, 2023

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”). The District of Delaware has long been a favorite venue for patent trolls across the country. District Court for the District of Delaware.

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IP Law 360

JULY 26, 2024

Two Washington tribes are testing whether they can hold Big Oil companies accountable in state court for climate change-related catastrophes, the attorney general is defending a ban on large-capacity gun magazines, and a key test of the state's anti-patent troll law is set for trial.

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IP Law 360

AUGUST 8, 2024

urged a Texas federal judge to punish a Texas company that Valve called a "patent troll" in its sanctions motion for allegedly re-arguing "frivolous" legal theories and purposely taking its barcode patent infringement suit to an allegedly improper venue. Video game maker and online game store operator Valve Corp.

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IP Law 360

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Amid a multi-front intellectual property fight between a China-based holiday light manufacturer and a so-called "patent troll," the company told a Georgia judge Monday that the patent holder had impermissibly tried to engineer jurisdiction by signing over to itself one of the patents at issue just minutes before filing its counterclaim.

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