Assignment Database and Alerts for free
My good friends down at MaxVal have announced a new tool to help patent attorneys and individuals interested in tracking information about corporate filings. It is called the: Assignment Database and Alerts. The Assignment Database offers a structured environment to analyze IP assets purchased or sold by an entity. The Alerts offer an effortless way […]
Patent infringement complaints filed May 30, 2012
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 […]
Free Patent Tools
I just got another e-mail from my friends at MaxVal telling me about a new free patent tool that they came up with: the “Reference Annotator“. Free is nice. I believe that the MaxVal patent tools I’ve used in the past have saved me time. I like the IDS Creator and the USPTO widget that […]
Facebook files Counterclaims against Yahoo
The Facebook and Yahoo patent battle continues. Just last week Facebook answered the Yahoo complaint of patent infringement and issued the Facebook counterclaims. Facebook claims that Yahoo is infringing on 10 patents that Facebook now owns. Of course these counterclaims probably would never have been asserted had it not been for the fact that Yahoo […]
What entities sued for Patent Infringement in 2011?
Anoop Gopakumar and his group at MaxVal provide patent litigation alerts every day and today Anoop provided me with some interesting data on patent filings over the past year. 3963 patent litigation cases were filed 2011. I’ve posted below a detailed chart analysis of who filed those patent lawsuits. The first chart below looks at […]