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Patent attorney and software developer Thomas Haines has struck a deal with Sydney company IPH to sell his data analysis businesses for $ 8 million, but plans to continue running the operation from Perth.

Chen has vowed to bring in cash from BlackBerry's large patent portfolio, and he said today the company scored two substantial deals — one with Cisco, and another with a firm he couldn't name.

The company has fought hard to protect IP on the latter product, including by striking a controversial deal with a Native tribe to safeguard its patents from certain challenges.

The two companies now have a 10 - year patent deal.

The reasoning behind the deal, Allergan CEO Brent Saunders and chief legal officer Bob Bailey explained to Fortune in an interview, is to protect against what the company considers to be «double jeopardy» in patent disputes.

The company struck a deal with Apple this year for patent royalties, the Wall Street Journal reported last month.

But that quarter's numbers were boosted by a patent licensing deal that netted the company more than $ 1 billion, according to earnings reports, so it isn't an apples - to - apples comparison.

Canada's Research In Motion (RIM) has lost a contract dispute over the use of Nokia patents in a case which could halt sales of its BlackBerry phones if it does not reach a deal to pay royalties to the Finnish company.

Part Three — The process to sell or license your patent to companies; how to value a patent; creating a Product Proposal to put your invention into the language companies understand; methods to find companies and techniques to contact them; an explanation of license agreement terms; negotiation strategies to a great deal; and how to use agents or consultants.

The deal ends Yahoo as an operating company and leaves it with its stake in Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba and Yahoo Japan, its cash, convertible notes, certain minority investments, and a noncore portfolio of patents called Excalibur.

Schrum, who led early chemistry research at Moderna and made some of the discoveries behind its initial patents, had left the company by the time the AstraZeneca deal was sealed.

However, I used the time to get a job with a big German pharmaceutical company, where I've been working in the patent department, dealing mainly with biotechnology patents and communicating with patent offices and attorneys all over the world.

Tech transfer involves assessing scientific research, applying for patents and licenses, and dealing with the companies interested in the technologies.

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld Monsanto Co's biotech seed patents on Monday, dealing a blow to a group of organic farmers and other activists trying to stop the biotech company from suing farmers if their fields contain a few plants containing the company's genetically modified traits.

The deal also settles a patent dispute between the companies.

It paid $ 30 million for access to the RNA interference know - how and patents held by the biotech company Alnylam, and it did a similar deal with Tekmira, an RNA delivery specialist based in Burnaby, British Columbia.

Despite being the result of public research, golden rice is enmeshed in around seventy patents owned by some thirty - two companies and institutions, according to the US - based International Service for the Acquisition of Agri - biotech Applications (ISAAA).4 Because of the complexity of licensing arrangements, the inventors ceded their rights to Greenovation, a biotech spin - off company from the University of Freiburg, which then struck a deal with AstraZeneca (now Syngenta).

On August 15th, Google announced its intentions to acquire Motorola Mobility for $ 12.5 billion and Motorola's competitors all voiced support for the deal, suggesting the acquisition would help each company fight in patent battles against Apple and Microsoft.

On August 15th, Google announced its intentions to acquire Motorola Mobility for $ 12.5 billion and Motorola's competitors all voiced support for the deal, suggesting the acquisition would help each company fight in patent >>

Interestingly, the timing of the new deal couldn't have come at a better time, what with a lot of companies now engaged in patent wars the world over, and Apple itself featuring in a few of those.

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He has successfully represented telecommunications and Internet companies in multiple patent acquisition deals.

In earlier days, tech companies would quietly hash out licensing deals to share their technical know - how, and those with the most patents got the best terms.

First, my bias — I'm not a patent agent, although I do deal with a lot of IP and IT issues, and advise companies that create and sell software or SAAS products.

By the way, March wasn't much better for Google with a preliminary ruling against Motorola's ITC complaint against the Xbox, Nokia's refusal to grant a license to its allegedly VP8 - essential patents, Nokia's progress toward its first Android patent license deal, and a trial based on which Microsoft may very well win (in early June) a German injunction not only against Motorola but also its parent company, Google, with respect to Google Maps.

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Life on the intellectual property side is focused on protecting clients» patents, while corporate lawyers assist companies with both their everyday and transformative matters, from basic employment needs and governance issues to business - altering M&A deals.

Then there are all the other patent suits that tech companies deal with all the time, but that rarely make headlines.

But in spite of this, Mastercard is still quite interested in the developing technologies as Sarkar revealed that Mastercard Labs, the credit company's branch that deals with research, has filed for over 30 patents which involve blockchain technology and cryptocurrency.

Not to mention that many companies hammered out ridiculous but fruitful cross-patent deals that allow the industry operate as it should (although these deals just prove how broken the patent system is right now).

«[T] he Johnny - come - lately owner of a single patent can threaten an entire innovative ecosystem,» [company] Verizon [/ company] wrote in a blog post describing the deal.

For Google, the goal of such deals is to show that cross-licensing is a better model than «patent privateering,» in which companies farm out patents to shell companies that then threaten to sue a broad range of targets.

Sure, Google bought the company for $ 12.5 billion and sold it for around $ 3 billion, but that doesn't necessarily mean it was a bad deal from a patent perspective.

This deal will give Facebook complete ownership of some 650 of those purchased patents and will give the company a license to all of the AOL patents that Microsoft bought.

According to a person familiar with the company, Google's patent partnership with Samsung is part of a larger plan to defuse the patent wars over smartphones, and promote industry - wide cross-licensing deals instead.

One hurdle faced by the six tech companies hoping to acquire 6,000 mobile patents from bankrupt Nortel Networks has been cleared, as courts in both the U.S. and Canada have signed off on the $ 4.5 billion deal involving Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), and Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM).

In November, Samsung also extended a broad licensing deal with Finland's Nokia Corp. through 2018, allowing Samsung to continue to use Nokia's patents and lessening the likelihood of lawsuits between the two companies.

The company also has several patent licensing deals in place with Android vendors that have brought in a ton of cash over the years.

It's likely a result of a deal between the two companies following a patent fight a few years ago.

I know, its one thing to sue apple, whose lawyers are now pretty damn experienced at patent lawsuits, but its a whole new deal when you sue the two most powerful companies in technology at the same time.

For Qualcomm, the deal means additional revenue for its licensing business and shows that the company is making slow but steady progress in its effort to get Chinese phone makers to pay patent royalties in the wake of an antitrust settlement there.

Chamber Founder and President Perianne Boring has acknowledged the urgency of dealing with patent trolls (companies that buy patents not to use them but to demand royalties and sue for damages) but also stresses the importance of creating an industry body that is organized and ready to deal with all intellectual property issues as they arise in the future and bringing the community together to foster collaboration and a healthy ecosystem.

Xiaomi international head Hugo Barra said on Thursday that the Chinese electronics company is looking to file more patents and strike more deals ahead of a launch into the U.S. market.

Oracle, the company who acquired Sun Microsystems, the Java programming language and related technology in a nice package deal, accused Google of patent and copyright infringement in relation to those technologies.

The bill has earned the support of numerous technology companies (PDF), many of which know the cost of dealing with patent trolls firsthand.

The deal, announced by Samsung on Monday, will see the two companies cross-license each other's patents covering IP that spans a wide range of technologies for 10 years.

Nokia has singed a deal with Huawei, enabling the Finnish company to have access to the Chinese groups» smartphone license patents.

But, being a «small guy» (I work for a small company providing services through a web site) so far I had to deal with patent trolls only, not big corporations.

Additionally, the scope of Samsung's infringement has been narrowed: the ITC disagreed with a prior judgment, ruling that the company was not guilty of four patents, most of which dealt with hardware aesthetics and basic software functionality.

Back in June, the company announced a partnership deal with Microsoft in which it cross-licensed some 1,500 patents that could help with its US expansion.