With Congress failing to vote on any patent reform bills before the summer recess and the Supreme Court’s term coming to a close, the NPE litigation landscape appears to be set through the rest of 2016 and into the new year. As in 2014 and 2015, legislative efforts to introduce patent reform stalled, with most…
Read full postOur continued study of inter partes review (IPR) as a potentially cost-effective alternative or adjunct to district court litigation shows that IPRs are relatively cheap per petition—but single-petition IPR strategies are not always sufficient. Multi-petition strategies, on the other hand, can cost millions. Whether IPR is a cost-effective strategy to deal with a patent assertion…
Read full postToday RPX releases its latest reporting on the state of the patent ecosystem, with comprehensive data and analysis covering litigation activity and transactions, and high-level information from our annual study of the costs of NPE activity to industry (the full cost report is available only to participants in the study). NPE litigation volume in 2015…
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