Sentences with phrase «companies enforce their patents»

A Boston company that helps inventors and small companies enforce their patents filed a series of lawsuits this week against e-discovery company kCura, developer of the Relativity search and review platform, and several of kCura's partners, alleging violation of a patent for concept - based visual presentation of search results.

Not exact matches

Essentially they aren't really businesses themselves, but holding companies that own one or a portfolio of patents that they simply enforce.

Plenty of places will explain how to file for a patent or a trademark registration, and it's true that a federal registration can help enforce your company's rights.

ITC's decision came on the same day when Mr.Obama took steps to control companies that buy and enforce patents rather than making their own products and services known as patent trolls by their detractors.

Myhrvold also rightly notes that big companies aggressively enforce their patents (and really, where is the outcry for patent reform because of the Apple vs. Samsung patent fight?)

As Anna Foley wrote in C&E, «The patent, which the company filed for in August 2011, could have major financial implications for Audience Partners and its rivals if the company is able to enforce it.»

GSK says it also plans to take a more «graduated» approach to filing and enforcing patents for other medicines to encourage generic drug companies to make and supply GSK products now available mainly in developed countries.

Rowan Freeland, an intellectual property partner at the law firm Simmons & Simmons, which mostly represents life science companies, says that the new court may also make European patents stronger by making them cheaper to enforce.

These companies, which profit by legally enforcing patents they own rather than developing products, may benefit from a 31 August ruling at a US federal court of appeal in Washington DC.

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Up until February, no one knew that Rick Frenkel, an in - house lawyer at Cisco by day, was also the anonymous blogger behind the controversial Patent Troll Tracker site, where he regularly outed companies (and their lawyers) that he considered to be patent trolls — a pejorative term for one who enforces his or her patents against alleged infringers in a manner considered unduly aggressive or opportunPatent Troll Tracker site, where he regularly outed companies (and their lawyers) that he considered to be patent trolls — a pejorative term for one who enforces his or her patents against alleged infringers in a manner considered unduly aggressive or opportunpatent trolls — a pejorative term for one who enforces his or her patents against alleged infringers in a manner considered unduly aggressive or opportunistic.

Our patent litigation attorneys are well - positioned to help companies protect and enforce their patent rights.

So far, the only tech company (besides Apple) that I've seen enforce a design patent is Microsoft (in its patent spat with Corel), and Microsoft may consider iOS the «lesser evil» among competing operating systems than Android.

Litigation where companies seek to enforce their patent rights, to enforce their plant breeders» rights, to enforce trademark rights.»

In the U.S. these two companies had not yet won anything against each other, but in Germany Apple had enforced three (permanent and provisionally enforceable) injunctions against Motorola — two of them over patents the Federal Patent Court of Germany later declared invalid and one of them over a patent the European Patent Office may still revoke — and Motorola had enforced a synchronization patent against Apple in Germany for 19 mPatent Court of Germany later declared invalid and one of them over a patent the European Patent Office may still revoke — and Motorola had enforced a synchronization patent against Apple in Germany for 19 mpatent the European Patent Office may still revoke — and Motorola had enforced a synchronization patent against Apple in Germany for 19 mPatent Office may still revoke — and Motorola had enforced a synchronization patent against Apple in Germany for 19 mpatent against Apple in Germany for 19 months.

Operating companies may enforce patents to strengthen the market value of their product whereas non-practicing entities scan the market looking for an opportunity to assert patents that have expired or are not infrequently found invalid.

Itâ $ ™ s discouraging that so many of these companies have been able to convince so many that any «small guy» enforcing a patent is a troll.

As Love explains, this type of company looks for «old, broad patents — patents that mostly shouldn't have issued in the first place — that it can enforce in high - stakes suits against large companies selling successful products.»