Patent litigation is often costly and time-consuming. However, the 2011 Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (“AIA”) offers a patent review system called inter partes review that could possibly reduce the cost of patent litigation. Defendants accused of patent infringement can use inter partes review and request the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) to review […]
There’s no question that patent litigation is increasing every day. If it’s not the big guys fighting it out it’s a nonpracticing entity (NPE) suing on patents that it purchased in an attempt to get a big payday. People argue that NPE’s should not be denigrated as patent trolls because they are just protecting their […]
Every day I receive litigation alerts from MaxVal. I think it’s interesting to see who’s filing patent claims in the United States.It seems that most patent litigations these days have to do with methods of using computers and Internet social networking sites. For example Blockbuster is getting sued for digitally selling movies through its Internet […]