While finalizing our latest quarterly report on publicly traded patent assertion entities (PAEs), Unwired Planet—one of the 23 public PAEs we’ve been tracking—announced its intention to exit the IP licensing business. Public PAEs have weathered a tough year. Only four had a positive stock price performance in the fourth quarter of 2015, and, as a…
Read full postThe first quarter of 2016 is in the books, and no doubt the level of NPE litigation activity has dipped. Defendants added to NPE campaigns in Q1 of 2016 total 496, about half the number added during the same quarter in 2015 and in 2014. That said, such a comparison is not “apples to apples”:…
Read full postThe US Supreme Court agreed to hear oral argument in Cuozzo Speed Technologies, LLC v. Lee, a case focused on the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB’s) inter partes review (IPR) process. RPX has taken a look at the statistics underpinning one of the two issues the court must decide in the matter: which standard…
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