Like a good Fourth of July fireworks show, the debate over patent reform has been colorful and noisy—but only partially and sporadically illuminating. This has been especially true of the discussion around IPRs (inter partes reviews). A creation of 2011’s America Invents Act (AIA), IPRs initially drew little attention. But over the last few years,…
Read full postThis month, RPX completed its third and most comprehensive annual NPE Cost Report to date—a study of thousands of NPE litigations and the cost to operating companies to resolve them. While the full report is provided only to study participants, we have shared a wealth of information from the study in our public version of…
Read full postAs a business that prizes transparency, no one loves an open book more than we do at RPX. In this regard, the ongoing “stories” of publicly traded patent assertion entities (PAEs) offer a unique gift: access to information usually kept under wraps by private corporations that we can use to sharpen our perspective and analysis…
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