Next week, the US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on the first of two patent issues that it has agreed so far to resolve this year: one involving damages awards and the other inter partes review. In both matters, a win for the petitioner would be a win for those who hold and assert…
Read full postA first look at data related to NPE litigation and the patent market during the past year shows that activity rebounded in 2015, after what now appears to have been a slowdown in the latter half of 2014. As described in our RPX 2015 NPE Activity: Highlights report published today, patent validity challenges under the America Invents Act…
Read full postThe inter partes review (IPR) has been a popular route for challenging patent validity since it was introduced. A look at the data since September 2012 confirms this growing popularity: the number of petitions filed, and therefore institution decisions made, has indeed risen over time. More interestingly, the data also reveal that the success rate…
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