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Rambus shows why loose use of terminology in the NPE/troll debate is so dishonest
Yesterday Rambus announced that it had reached an agreement with STMicroelectronics that brings an end to long-standing patent litigation between the two. This dates back to 2010 when the semiconductor company was among those targeted by Rambus in an assertion campaign relating to the so-called Barth patents. In July 2012 the ITC ruled that neither STMicro nor LSI had infringed the patents; this followed a ruling by the USPTO earlier in the year that several of them were, in fact, ...
Posted by Joff Wild, IAM Magazine on 18 June 2013 @ 8:14AM
Deals are important, but they are not the principal drivers of IP value
We are all back from Boston now after last week’s IP Business Congress (see reports here, here and here) and we are now going through the feedback we have had from delegates. Overall, it looks as if most of the 600-plus who attended found the event very worthwhile, both in terms of content and networking opportunities. There are criticisms and nits too, just as there always are, and we will look at these carefully so that we can make next year in Amsterdam even better; but, in ...
Posted by Joff Wild, IAM Magazine on 17 June 2013 @ 6:31PM
Litigators in England well-placed to become the NPE go-to guys under new EU patent regime
Experts suggested that patent litigators based in England could be the counsel of choice for many Unified Patent Court (UPC) plaintiffs at a debate on litigation finance held in London last week. Panellists at the discussion, held at the offices of litigation finance and insurance broker The Judge, suggested that recent civil litigation costs reforms in the United Kingdom and the increasing sophistication of the country’s litigation funding market could make the services of ...
Posted by Jack Ellis, IAM Magazine on 14 June 2013 @ 1:00PM
IPBC day 3: the CIPO role, deal volume and values, the nature of invention and more
The final instalment of our reports on events in and surrounding this year's IP Business Congress: The CIPO role – A debate on the motion “This house believes that the only way that chief IP officers can do their jobs as effectively as possible is to report directly to the CEO” produced what I thought was a surprising result, given that the exchanges took place in front of an IPBC crowd. When moderator Terry Ludlow of Chipworks called for the final vote, the team ...
Posted by Joff Wild, IAM Magazine on 12 June 2013 @ 3:18PM
IPBC day 2: meet the PMBs, a passionate new AIPLA president, missed opportunities in pharma
Thoughts and observations from the second day of this year’s IP Business Congress: PMBs – Here’s a new term that may or may not enter the lexicon: the Predatory Monopolist Bully (PMB). It was used by Loudon Owen of Patent Monetization Inc, who is a VC and as chairman of i4i played a key role in the company’s US Supreme Court triumph over Microsoft in 2011. Although he did not define in detailed terms what a PMB is, Owen may just have invented a phrase which is ...
Posted by Joff Wild, IAM Magazine on 11 June 2013 @ 5:15PM
Thoughts on Rader, Kappos and other things from the IPBC in Boston ...
When there’s time over the next couple of days I’ll try to put together a few blogs based on stuff seen and heard around this year’s IPBC Global, now underway in Boston. Here’s the first of them: Boston: We held our opening reception on the lawn of the John Joseph Moakley US Courthouse, which overlooks Boston harbour. It was warm in the early evening sun, the sky was cloudless, the water was a shimmering blue. When the weather is like it was yesterday Boston ...
Posted by Joff Wild, IAM Magazine on 10 June 2013 @ 12:37PM
NPE and operating company to merge in new-style structure that could suit changing times
What looks to be a new kind of IP monetisation entity will become a reality next month should a shareholder vote scheduled for 20th June approve a proposed merger between NPE Lexington Technology Group and the NASDAQ-quoted speciality packager and authentication provider DSS Inc. As far as I can tell, this would be the first merger between an NPE and an operating company. The new outfit will take the DSS moniker and earlier this week I spoke to LTG’s Jeff Ronaldi and Peter ...
Posted by Joff Wild, IAM Magazine on 07 June 2013 @ 1:11PM
The Executive Office of the US President publishes a truly depressing report on PAEs
Alongside the White House Taskforce on High-Tech Patent Issues legislative recommendations and executive actions designed to curb abuses of the patent system issued today, the Executive Office of the President has published a report from the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, the National Economic Council, and the Office of Science & Technology Policy entitled Patent Assertion and US Innovation. It is a thoroughly depressing piece of work. Not because of the bleak ...
Posted by Joff Wild, IAM Magazine on 04 June 2013 @ 5:26PM
Obama declares war on trolls, but all patent owners will be affected
The White House Taskforce on High-Tech Patent Issues has released details of the Obama administration’s legislative priorities and executive actions that are “designed to protect innovators from frivolous litigation and ensure the highest-quality patents in our system”. My initial thoughts on this are that following Obama’s statements in February during a Google-organised event, it was always going to be the case that “trolls” would come ...
Posted by Joff Wild, IAM Magazine on 04 June 2013 @ 3:28PM
Maybe blaming 'trolls' is sometimes easier than accepting that you have messed up
Online eyewear vendor Ditto is seeking donations via crowdfunding site Indiegogo in order to finance two patent lawsuits in which it is the defendant, it was reported last week. Start-up Ditto provides a service which allows customers to upload 3-D images of their head using a webcam so that they can try on eyeglasses virtually. Two separate lawsuits have been brought by companies that claim this augmented reality technology infringes their patents – and in both instances, ...
Posted by Jack Ellis, IAM Magazine on 30 May 2013 @ 3:08PM
