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”
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
On March 31, the Supreme Court of the United States began hearing oral arguments for the notable patent case of Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank and the application of patent protection on software, specifically computer-implemented inventions, and whether it is appropriate under Section 101 of
In response to a 2006 suicide bombing in Tel-Aviv, Israel, resulting in several deaths and injuries, the Wultz family of Florida filed a civil suit against the Bank of China (BOC), alleging acts of international terrorism under the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) by providing material support
The countdown to January 1st has begun and so have the year-end reviews. We want to kick off the new year with you by sharing our 13 most popular blog posts from 2013 covering everything from the FRCP to trademark infringement to e-discovery to data
A recent California federal district court case, Entrepreneur Media, Inc. v. Smith, does not seem very noteworthy at first glance, and for the most part it isn’t. Entrepreneur Media (EMI) won a judgment against the defendant in a straightforward case of trademark infringement. In attempting
In a 2012 Intellectual Property Magazine article, DeAnna Allen, partner at Cooley, brought up an important question about content providers and patents: “What degree of financial responsibility should a content provider reasonably expect to bear for patent infringement when it has little or no hand
GE and the 4 year-old product development company Quirky have come to an agreement that will allow the public to use many GE patents to spur invention and innovation. The initial deal will make 200 patents available to the public, but will eventually include thousands.