Track Litigations and Challenges
Staying current on litigations facing your company – or that you are at risk of joining – can be an overwhelming task, demanding frequent monitoring of public sources that are often not complete or up-to-date. Litigation data can also be confusing, with plaintiff and defendant names varying across different court records.
RPX Insight makes patent litigation research easy, putting millions of integrated and fully searchable patents, litigation cases, and entities at your fingertips. It streamlines the litigation-tracking process by aggregating public data, rationalizing litigant entity names, and turning a complex series of steps into a single simple search. RPX also provides updates and tools such as customized alerts when there are new filings, venue transfers, or other changes in the cases you are monitoring.
Respond to Assertion Letters
For most companies, the first call made after receiving an assertion letter is to outside counsel. RPX Insight enables you to pursue a less costly and more effective first step: arm yourself with critical information on the patent, the asserting entity, and the potential litigation before engaging legal help that you may or may not need to resolve the issue.
You can learn when and to whom the patent was issued/assigned, whether it has been litigated in the past, all counsel involved, and the case outcomes. RPX Insight also allows you to determine whether the asserting NPE is a small, less experienced entity or a larger, well-established firm. The asserting entity’s litigation and patent history are also described.
The description of the plaintiff law firm can help you assess how experienced the firm is in litigating the technology of the particular patent, and its success to date – all critical information that can make a significant difference in your response to an assertion.
Research Litigation History
Building a reliable timeline of past litigations involving specific patents is a significant challenge. PACER information can be useful if you know precise litigations to examine, but not if your research is based on specific patents. The USPTO does not track litigations.
RPX Insight can help you quickly and accurately construct a clear litigation history of a particular patent or portfolio, including the parties involved, dates of filings of settlements, status of ongoing litigations, list of associated court documents and more. Building such a detailed campaign perspective requires proprietary data and the ability to cross-reference a wide array of diverse – but pertinent – patent and litigation attributes.
It’s just one more way that RPX provides uniquely valuable insight and competitive advantage in the patent ecosystem.
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