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Introduction
On July 19, 2016, the District Court for the Western District of Washington (“Court”) dismissed a patent suit because the asserted... Read More »
Inter partes reviews are the new hotbed of patent litigation. Filed at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, with the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, IPRs take down... Read More »
A few weeks ago, we identified the 25 most litigated patents since 2010 and learned they were responsible for more than 6% of all patent suits in the country. As... Read More »
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TAEKSUNG KIMGreat analysis. Peculiarly however, I have found that there are many issued data processing patents in the field of autonomous vehicles. Efforts for preoccupying patents?
Sep 8, 2016
Pedram SameniThis analysis is independent of prosecution data. While we believe Alice and IPR may have impacted filing strategies of some companies, they are not directly related. We plan to do another study in the near future covering the prosecution data.
Sep 8, 2016
A prior post reported on the litigation between Electric Power Group (EPG) and Alstom Grid.
The lawsuit, filed in the Central District of ... Read More »
Last week we published the number of unique patent assertions since 2010, surprisingly noticing that this number has been on a steady decline. Given that the number... Read More »
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TAEKSUNG KIMThis is an excellent analysis. Your report shows that a powerful patent will survive many battles.
Aug 25, 2016
Pedram SameniThanks Taeksung for your note. However, many of these cases had been filed together or around the same time. It does not necessarily mean that the patent was beaten 400 times and survived.
Aug 25, 2016
We recently studied the PTAB data and suggested that although the rise and fall in litigation indirectly affected the rise and fall in IPR challenges, the true driver ... Read More »
The Inter Partes Review (IPR) and Covered Business Method (CBM) procedures were enacted on September 16, 2012. Since then, the PTAB has released data on a monthly... Read More »
This week at Patexia, we asked our data science team to look into the most popular U.S. district courts for patent litigation. This is important in light of the... Read More »
Polaroid v. Kodak, concluded in 1991 after 15 years, was the first “billion dollar” patent damages award ($909 million). Until this year, it... Read More »
By Joshua Davenport and Aseet Patel
While the number of decisions holding claims to be patent eligible under the two-part Alice test has been few and far between, ... Read More »
Since the America Invents Act (AIA) became effective on September 16, 2012, the Inter-Partes Review (IPR) has drawn significant attention. Additionally, discussion... Read More »
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Van EconomouIt is the low hanging fruit phenomenon. The patents which had obvious (pun intended) problems were the first to be IPR'd and with time these were harder to find.
Aug 3, 2016
Pedram SameniMost likely that's what happened. We believe the quality of patents in new cases should generally be higher.
Aug 3, 2016
Seventy-one percent of patent claims for which inter partes review are instituted are canceled. You knew that. You knew your patent was subject to IPR cancelation by... Read More »
This morning government Accountability Office (GAO) released the result of 1.5 years research on issues related to patent quality, non-practicing entities, and high... Read More »
This week, the Patexia Data Science Team analyzed the recent patent litigation data obtained from PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records) to understand ... Read More »
After a decade of disputes and lobbying, Ukraine has finally joined the countries with special IP courts or patent courts, namely the United Kingdom, the... Read More »
This Thursday there will be another Patexia IP Matters webinar, this time by Mr. Manny Schecter, Chief patent Counsel of IBM who is going to focus on Alice Case... Read More »
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Anonymous Has Alice Case impacted the filing rate at IBM?
Feb 24, 2016
Anonymous Is there another Supreme Court case that can change the path for software patents?
Feb 24, 2016
In my most recent post, I discuss a recent article in IAM by Unified Patents that shows data about how IPRs are used to settle patent infringement cases. I ... Read More »
The revised Federal Rules of Civil Procedure contain changes that may impact patent litigation at the district court level. The revised rules went into effect on... Read More »
2015 has been an interesting year in the IP space. Aggressive lobbying has kept patent reform in the spotlight in both Congress and the media, with the patent... Read More »
The days of fight or settle are over for companies facing patent litigation. During the last several years, the US patent landscape has shifted dramatically... Read More »