A shell company that sued dozens of computer peripheral makers has quickly dropped Newegg house brand Rosewill from its list of defendants. The motion to dismiss, filed yesterday, comes just days after Newegg's...
Wait… we sued who?! Patent troll drops case one day after Newegg’s lawyer calls
Cisco gets a big patent win despite Supreme Court loss, overturns $64M verdict
Cisco has finally quashed a long-running lawsuit brought by an Israeli patent-holding company called Commil USA. The case took a surprising number of detours, including a trip to the Supreme Court last year that looks almost unnecessary in hindsight.
In an opinion (PDF) published Monday, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said...
Microsoft patents a slider, earning EFF’s “Stupid Patent of the Month” award
The Electronic Frontier Foundation's "Stupid Patent of the Month" for December isn't owned by a sketchy shell company, but rather the Microsoft Corporation. The selection, published yesterday, is the first time the EFF has picked a design patent as the SPOTM. The blog post seeks to highlight some of the problems with those lesser-known cousins to standard "utility" patents, especially the damages...
In a first, East Texas judge hits patent troll with attorneys’ fees
The most litigious "patent troll" of 2014 has been effectively shut down, and will have to pay attorneys' fees to several defendants.
US District Judge Rodney Gilstrap, who hears more patent cases that any other federal judge, issued an order (PDF) on Thursday saying that the behavior of eDekka LLC qualified...
New stats: Samsung surges past IBM to lead U.S. patent race for 2015
Samsung has been granted more U.S. patents so far this year than any other company — including IBM, Google, Sony, Microsoft and Apple — and the company is keeping the pipeline full by applying for more patents than any of its rivals, as well. The consumer electronics giant, which has...
Nintendo touchscreen controller patent offers clues about upcoming NX
Nintendo has remained largely silent on its plans for its next console, codenamed NX, since the system was casually announced earlier this year. A newly published patent application from Nintendo,...
Geek of the Week: Patent attorney Priya Cloutier couldn’t help but catch the entrepreneurial bug
Patent attorney Priya Cloutier wasn’t all that surprised when she caught the entrepreneurship bug earlier this year. After all, she has been representing startups for more than a decade. She left a comfortable job a big firm in October to start her own practice, Cloutier Global. Things are still just getting started, but Cloutier said she was able to bring...
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MarketWatch Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements regarding the issuance of a patent based on the Notices of Allowance from the U.S. Patent... Trademark Bullying: Defending Your Brand or Vexatious Business Tactics?
Recently, in a Report to Congress on trademark litigation tactics, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) defined the amorphous term Trademark Bullying or Trademark Trolling as the vexatious practice of a “trademark owner that uses its trademark rights to harass and intimidate another business beyond what the law might be reasonably interpreted to allow.” Mirroring the modus operandi exhibited by patent assertion...
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