Region: Canada

Last week’s completion of a $200 million deal with NPE Malikie Innovations Limited saw more valuable IP leave Canadian ownership and was for a much lower amount than CEO John Chen and his board had originally planned for

18 May 2023

The Canadian licensing company’s stark Q1 revenue decline to C$5.7 million stems from its enormous success in closing Apple and Kyocera patent licences last year

10 May 2023

Chief IP officers at global companies should not ignore Bill C-27, the new Canadian Digital Charter Implementation Act

09 May 2023

The USPTO’s proposed rulemaking package and its potential impact promoted a deep dive on Docket Navigator

08 May 2023

CEO John Chen says company will use a third party to extract value from 2,000 patents it is keeping

31 March 2023

Key Patent Innovations has a scant history of suing in the States, indicating its licensing approach may centre on private negotiations in contrast to the failed purchaser

27 March 2023

The time and expense of launching an assertion programme in untested markets will limit the buyer’s ROI as well as incoming royalties

24 March 2023

Parent company Quarterhill is still undergoing a strategic review to determine whether to sell WiLAN, but doesn’t want the delay to remind anyone of the stagnant BlackBerry patent sale

22 March 2023

The company has scrapped its failed $600 million deal with Catapult IP Innovations and now will seek US and Canadian government regulatory approval to close a $200 million pact

21 March 2023

We talked with Greg Benoit, president of the Canadian company that filed the most cases in 2022, strongly favours the Western District of Texas, and has obtained a 96% settlement rate among its terminated cases

20 March 2023