While some patent trolls’ business may be affected by the Supreme Court’s past decision that patent infringement cases must be filed where the defendant is incorporated and the future one that involves the review of a lower court’s ruling that upheld the U.S. Patent and
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
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
While Seattle Seahawk Russell Wilson continues to wipe away tears of joy (and Cheeseheads, tears of despair), we bring you news of patent troll legislation out of the Evergreen State. What’s a patent troll? A company that acquires “exceptionally broad patents” and then accuses another
Patent trolls have another trick up their sleeves that could hurt small startups and entrepreneurs, and it involves crowdfunding. For those of you who aren’t sure what this means, the names Kickstarter and Indiegogo may ring a bell. Basically, crowdfunding is a feel-good way to
The U.S. may have finally found a way to stop, or at least limit, patent trolls from continuing to wreak havoc on the legal system. A proposed “loser pays” update to the Shield Act in America Act would make patent trolls financially liable for all
Recently, there has been a shift by patent trolls to go after the users of everyday technology rather than the creator of the technology. One of the main advantages in targeting small companies who are the users of patented technology is that small companies are
Here at BLLAWG we discuss patents and patent trolls quite often. It is much rarer to see bright spots for a potential overhaul of our current patent system that allows those who abuse it to profit and proliferate. On Wednesday, the Computer & Communications Industry
The idea behind patents is sound, and we are all more or less familiar with how they work– encourage innovation by granting the inventors of creative and useful ideas a period of exclusive rights to produce and profit from those ideas. But the system does
You may remember when Harley-Davidson famously tried for years to trademark the sound of their V-twin motorcycle engine. The process was held up in legal limbo for so long that they ended up walking away and withdrew their request from the United States Patent and