Patents aren’t just for inventors and IP counsel, anymore. Patents are hot. Thanks to billion dollar deals like the Nortel auction, Google/Motorola Mobility and Microsoft/AOL/Facebook, as well as a flurry of high-profile infringement fights between big names in high tech, patents have been in the news a lot lately. After decades of obscurity, patents have…
Read full postMark Cuban knows business and basketball (his defending NBA champion Dallas Mavericks earned a playoff spot despite a season marred by injuries and Lamar Odom). It turns out he also knows patents – though not as much as maybe he should. In a recent blog post The Greatest Business Risk You Don’t Know About – Your…
Read full postThe International Trade Commission has become a popular venue for patent confrontations between NPEs and operating companies. After years of relatively consistent activity, NPE-driven investigations in the ITC jumped fourfold, from 4 to 16, between 2010 and 2011 (NPE suits filed in district court, by comparison, rose 84% year to year). In a parallel trend,…
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