RPX saw patent litigation filings remain fairly sluggish in the second quarter of 2017, with about 530 defendants added to NPE lawsuits and nearly 420 added in operating company cases (compared to about 500 and 400, respectively, in Q1). While the total number of defendants in Q2 was similar to Q1, we noted that the…
Read full postFor some companies, the risk of getting sued for patent infringement is still something of an abstraction. It hasn’t happened; ergo, it doesn’t seem real—especially for many startups, mid-sized firms, or any company yet to face their first threat. Sometimes even describing a company’s actual experience with receiving a patent assertion letter, mounting a response,…
Read full postSince its inception, RPX has studied the billions of dollars companies collectively spend every year on NPE litigation, providing a full NPE Cost Report annually to companies that contribute data to the study, and sharing select, high-level findings more broadly. Today, RPX releases a new version of this reporting in the form of a series of…
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