Standards contributors stressed their heavy reliance on licensing income while product manufacturers expressed frustration at the difficulty of calculating total SEP licensing costs
The Axionics and Rembrandt rulings clarify that PTAB petitioners are not limited to their petitions’ arguments; they can adapt arguments to address patent owners’ post-institution claim constructions
IP professionals need to know the Keysight Technologies ruling when facing IPRs connected to challenges and prior art the Patent Office already considered
Here’s the critical background to know as innovators today participate in a USPTO listening session about the intersection between standards development and IP
20 September 2023
A preliminary injunction strikes a heavy blow against NanoString Technologies which already withdrew from Germany due to a previous 10x injunction and now must do so from 16 more European countries
19 September 2023
Chief Judge Rodney Gilstrap’s 2023 case filings so far have surpassed that of Judge Alan Albright of Waco, according to Docket Navigator’s Judge Comparison Report
18 September 2023
The surge is due to 9,702 US patent assets involved in the BlackBerry sale to Key Patent Innovations, which runs Malikie Innovations, according to the AST Patent Deals Report for Q2 2023
15 September 2023
Upscale coffee machine maker CUP&CINO Kaffeesystem and accused infringer Alpina Coffee Systems both brought their milk frothers to show UPC judges how they worked
14 September 2023
Many patent licensing and litigation questions can be answered using this approach, developed by Licensing Executives Society USA and Canada
13 September 2023
Docket Navigator research shows seven US district court cases related to new video codec AV1, and 56 cases mentioning older version VP9, showing the holes in the codecs' royalty-free licensing pledges
11 September 2023
Saturday opinion: Protection opportunities are beginning to come to the fore for companies looking to protect valuable IP, says IAM’s trade secrets reporter Maia Biermann
09 September 2023
European regulators dropped an investigation into the Alliance for Open Media, which developed the AV1 video codec to be royalty-free
08 September 2023
The global scientific and engineering consultancy has bought TechPats, a patent-focused technical expert firm, at a time when an uncertain economy and declining number of M&As has led some companies to issue layoff notices to IP staff
07 September 2023
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