Sentences with phrase «many patent assertion»

In the past, trolls, also known as «patent assertion entities» (PAEs), were mostly viewed as a problem for the software industry.

The White House's Patent Assertion and Innovation report of June 2013 found that since 2005, the number of defendants sued by patent trolls had quadrupled.

A patent troll operation may be called a «patent assertion company» or «entity» or a «non-manufacturing patentee.»

LOT Network is the fastest - growing, cost - efficient preventative cure for the patent assertion entity (PAE) problem.

Nevertheless, innovators continue to face challenges from Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs), companies that, in the President's words «don't actually produce anything themselves,» and instead develop a business model «to essentially leverage and hijack somebody else's idea and see if they can extort some money out of them.»

The U.S. president made a number of recommendations to congress for legislative changes and announced executive actions to address these Patent Assertion Entities.

Recently, there has been a renewed discussion about Patent Assertion Entities, also known as non-practicing entitles (NPEs), or colloquially, patent trolls.

Another growing field in our work was helping SMEs in countering infringement assertions of non-practicing entities or patent assertion entities — pejoratively considered as «patent trolls» — based on outdated SEPs that have been cheaply purchased from telecommunication firms.

Because demand letters and pre-litigation negotiations rarely are made public, it is difficult to know how many patent assertion entities are active in Canada.

Known as «patent trolls» — or more politely, as «non-practicing entities,» patent assertion entities,» and «patent monetizers» — these perpetual plaintiffs buy up broad, vague patents and then claim their wide - ranging applications.

AGs Support Federal Information - Gathering Project on «Patent Trolls» NAAG sent comments signed by 43 state and territorial attorneys general to the Federal Trade Commission in support of a proposed federal project to collect data and information about Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs), also known as patent trolls.

Defended patent infringement actions brought by patent assertion entities (commonly known as patent trolls).

He additionally has managed the defense of more than 40 patent assertions against his client as well as a successful patent litigation against more than 15 defendants.

Patent assertion agencies that rely on monetization as their sole income has been labeled as «patent trolls».

It's easier to get an injunction from the ITC than from a district court, particularly if you are a patent assertion entity («PAE» or patent «troll») that uses primarily patents for licensing, rather than to support the commercialization or transfer of technology.

Cook Medical likewise holds up laches as one of the last defenses against patent assertion entities that delay filing suit as a weapon to make enormous settlement demands or demand higher licensing fees.

Advising and representing a global technology company in a number of patent litigations, including defending it against standard - essential patent assertions and against the largest ever damages claim brought in patent infringement proceedings in Germany.

Estimations reveal that 62 percent of all patent litigation matters are initiated by the patent assertion agencies.

In 2011 patent assertion cases cost the U.S. companies $ 80 billion.

Lex Machina developed this classification as an alternative to «non practicing entity» (NPE) or «patent assertion entity» (PAE) analysis, terms whose exact meaning is often ambiguous.

Some interesting scenarios discussed in the Guidelines include standard essential patents, patent pooling and patent assertion entities.

On Monday, executives from high - profile tech companies, including [company] Apple [/ company] and [company] Microsoft [/ company], put their names to a public letter that sought to safeguard an upcoming IEEE decision from «smoke and mirrors» tactics by patent assertion entities (commonly known as patent trolls).

Without patent value or patent assertion, inventors would have no incentive to innovate, and where would technology be today without innovation and without protection for those who spend the time / effort / money to innovate?

One would be hard pressed to imagine a more troubling instantiation of this model than the one practiced by Lodsys Group, LLC... Lodsys burst onto the patent assertion scene in 2011 by firing off a spate of demand letters to app developers, many of whom are individuals with extremely little revenue, alleging that they were using software related to «in - app purchasing» that was covered by a handful of Lodsys - owned patents...

One study found that United States companies — most of them small or medium - sized — spent $ 29 billion in 2011 on patent assertion cases.

This reality is the lifeblood of the patent assertion industry... Indeed, the opening line of many negotiations is some form of, «What we're asking for is less than it will cost you to litigate this case to judgment.»

In recent years, patent trolls — they prefer «patent assertion entities,» or P.A.E.'s — have gone from low - profile corporate migraine to mainstream scourge.

While the name «Motivational Health Messaging» may sound new, the actors behind it aren't: the people associated with MHM and its patent overlap with the people associated with notorious patent assertion entities Shipping & Transit, Electronic Communication Technologies, ArrivalStar, and Eclipse IP, who we've written about on numerous occasions.

CPF believes that Chairman Goodlatte's draft legislation, if enacted, would help address the abuse of our current patent system by patent assertion entities, commonly referred to as patent trolls.

«Instead of creating new jobs and investing in new technologies, businesses large and small across many industries — from national realty, construction, and technology businesses to Main Street retail shops, hotels, grocers, convenience stores, and restaurants — continue to be forced to divert scarce resources to fighting frivolous lawsuits and overly broad claims made by Patent Assertion Entities, or «patent trolls».»

«Despite the passage of the America Invents Act (AIA), many of America's most innovative companies are still plagued by patent assertion entities (PAEs), commonly referred to as «patent trolls.»

President Obama's patent reform recommendations highlight a growing consensus for action against patent assertion entities, or patent trolls, which have expanded their burdensome activities against America's most innovative industries.

But this very patent assertion is what keeps the big companies from stealing ideas and creating a market with unfair competition.

Other Entity = Universities / Non-Profits / Government / Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) NPE (Patent Assertion Entities) = Entity whose primary activity is licensing patents and acquired most of its patents from another entity NPE (Small Company) = Entity whose original activity was providing products and services, but now is primarily focused on monetizing its own patent portfolio.

«Instead of creating new jobs and investing in new technologies, businesses large and small across many industries... continue to be forced to divert scarce resources to fighting frivolous lawsuits and overly broad claims made by Patent Assertion Entities, or «patent trolls».»

For too long, patent assertion entities (PAEs), commonly referred to as «patent trolls,» have taken advantage of our litigation system to seek quick profits from bad patents.

The Federal Trade Commission on Friday called for public comments on a proposed investigation into approximately 25 «patent assertion entities,» — more commonly known as patent trolls — and how they affect innovation and competition.

The Innovation Act, by contrast, specifically addresses certain abusive patent assertion activities.

The undersigned organizations strongly encourage Congressional efforts to address abuses of the legal system by certain patent assertion entities, commonly referred to as patent trolls.

Patent assertion entities, or patent trolls, undermine that purpose.

Despite general agreement on these points, universities sometimes sell to patent assertion entities like mega-troll Intellectual Ventures or dietary supplement troll ThermoLife.

Specifically, we've urged universities to sign a Public Interest Patent Pledge not to sell or exclusively license patents to patent assertion entities, also known as patent trolls.

[School name] pledges not to knowingly license or sell the rights of inventions, research, or innovation made possible by this institution to patent assertion entities, or patent trolls.

In the past, President Obama and his Administration have voiced support for reforms that would address ongoing abuses of the patent system by patent assertion entities, otherwise known as patent trolls, which currently cost America's economy roughly $ 29 billion each year.

What: US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Insurance hearing: «Demand Letters and Consumer Protection: Examining Deceptive Practices by Patent Assertion Entities»

The trolls, also known as «patent assertion entities,» neither make nor sell anything, but threaten to sue unsuspecting businesses with vague and dubious patent claims.

But there's nothing in the proposal to stop them from doing that: not every open source license that would comply with the policy requires that creators give up patent assertion rights.

The general idea is to promote licensing arrangements that support the development of patent portfolios for defensive purposes while reducing the likelihood of patents falling into the hands of patent assertion entities (aka patent trolls, the companies that don't make products but instead buy patents to launch lawsuits).

In a more recent case, Globetrotter Software, Inc. v. Elan Computer Group, Inc., the court elaborated on the decision in Zenith by holding that an allegedly «bad faith» patent assertion must pass the «objective baselessness» standard to survive federal preemption of state - law counterclaims for tortious interference with prospective economic advantage and unfair competition.

Conversely, the statute provides that patent assertions can be considered illegitimate when they don't provide one or more the following: