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Category: Litigation
Video: Smartphone Patent Fight is Also a War of Words
“What’s Going On?” says Google Chief Legal Officer About Collaborative Bidding – The battle between Google (GOOG) and is smartphone rivals including Apple (AAPL) and
Valuations Soar on Smartphone Patents and Stocks
Speculation is Boosting Some Companies for Now; The Shortsighted are Paying a Premium to Compete – What hath the Nortel auction wrought? Never before has
Kearns’ Son Still Fuming Over Wiper Blade Fight
Unreasonably high patent licensing hurdles are a “license to steal” – In messages from Robert Kearns’ son Dennis received this week by IP Insider (now, IP CloseUp), it is
Six Years of Talks Fail in Ford Patent Dispute
Flash(back) of Genius? Ford Motor Company was sued twice in one week by businesses that say it is infringing their hands-free inventions, including the company’s popular SYNC voice-command technology If it looks
New Patent Litigation Survey Confirms NPE Growth
What’s Fueling Higher Awards? Damages awards for NPEs (non-practicing patent owning entities) are on average triple those of practicing entities, according to handy 2010 Patent
Patent “War” Launched by Billionaire Allen
MSFT Founder Sues Over Web Rights – Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is claiming in a suit filed in filed on Friday in Seattle that patents owned by a company that he once
Patent “Plot” Thickens
EDN Takes a Fresh Look at NPEs In the current Electronic Design, Strategy, News, contributing editor Tam Harbert cuts to the heart of the NPE matter with a timely
The Lure of Chapter 11
Creditors Should Covet IP, Not Costs In a wry and informative Sunday Business piece in The New York Times, “Who Knew Bankruptcy Paid So Well?,”
Patent Troll Defense
Insurer Must Provide Defense Coverage To Hyundai in “Troll” Dispute In a story that received scant media coverage, an appeals court has decided that two
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