The Patent Risk Digest provides a monthly update on market activity, policy, and legal developments related to patent litigation.
A patent troll litigation campaign that began in 2002 and has hit hundreds of defendants is still persisting—with more than 100 companies named in lawsuits just in the past 12 months. The patent infringement suits brought by Shipping & Transit LLC target a common business practice: emailing a tracking link to customers to monitor product shipping. Read the full May issue.
Read morePatent troll campaigns follow a formula. Each is organized around a single patent or group of patents that involve similar technologies, thus allowing the patent troll leading the campaign to target any number of companies that rely on that patented technology. Patent troll Phoenix Licensing has been executing just such a campaign for more than eight years. Read the full April issue.
Read moreTraditional “reactive” insurance was never a viable solution for patent litigation, given the seemingly random nature and devastating cost of a single infringement suit. Now, a proactive form of patent litigation insurance is succeeding where traditional solutions failed—by not only compensating policyholders for losses, but also quantifiably cutting their patent risk. Read the full March issue.
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