While there’s no such thing as a stupid question, there is, apparently, such a thing as a stupid patent: Louisiana Tech University’s patent for the “method and apparatus for automatic organization for computer files” was designated “Stupid Patent of the Month” by Electronic Frontier Foundation
In November 2016, we highlighted a patent troll case over Web autoplay technology. That same month, Netflix released its offline-download feature, which is now the subject of a patent infringement case. A known “patent troll,” one could say Blackbird Technologies was only waiting for this
This year, we’ve blogged about patent wins against Apple over voice-system and ring-silencing technology. This month, we add a lawsuit over online payment technology to the files against Apple. According to The National Law Journal, in 2015, Smartflash won a $533 million jury verdict against
Not long after one “patent troll” took a bite out of Apple in court in September, another filed suit against 14 media companies for allegedly infringing on its Web autoplay technology, even though the original patent was for television and doesn’t mention the Internet or
Last week, “patent trolls” notched another legal win against Apple in 2016. A Delaware federal jury ruled that the multinational technology company infringed on Mobile Media Ideas LLC’s mobile phone ring-silencing patent and should pay $3 million. One could say that Apple got off “cheap”
Siri, how much did Apple agree to pay Marathon Patent Group, Inc. over your voice-system technology? 24.9 million. According to documents recently filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Apple has agreed to settle with the patent troll. In turn, Marathon Patent Group will split
In January 2015, we blogged about Washington State’s effort through the proposed Patent Troll Prevention Act to protect the rights of legitimate patent holders by cracking down on deceptive and predatory claims of patent infringement. (It was then signed into law that April.) Now, we
A dispute between Hewlett-Packard and its shareholders lasting three years and including almost 400 fillings ended with a printer-cartridge bang when Judge Charles Breyer responded to HP’s motions for thousands of pages of heavily redacted documents to be sealed with a heavily redacted ruling of
See if these sound familiar: “rising eDiscovery costs,” “failure to preserve” and “increased spend.” Like a litigation playlist on loop, they have been repeated again and again over the last decade. In an attempt to tackle discovery proportionality and curtail costs to the needs of
Once known as the “World’s Leading Specialty Electronics Retailer” (clock radios, scanners, remote-controlled cars, anyone?), RadioShack declared bankruptcy in February and is now selling its brand and customer data to the highest bidder — the hedge fund Standard General. The $26.2 million deal has raised
Earlier this week, we brought you news of patent reform legislation out of Washington State. Now, we share the renewed reform efforts taking place in Washington, D.C. As The Washington Post reports, patent trolls are no longer a “tech-sector problem.” Department stores, restaurant chains, search