The Age of Patent Trolls: Either attack or hide!
Consider a hypothetical situation where the MD of ‘Techomigo’, a budding small software-technology company, receives a notice of infringement one fine afternoon and wonders what could be its cause...
View ArticleIntellectual Ventures files patent infringement complaint against Nikon
Intellectual Ventures (IV), an invention and investment company founded by the former Chief Strategist and Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft, Nathan Myhrvold, today filed a patent infringement...
View ArticleRaising the intellectual shield
Patents are nigh invaluable in the litigation-heavy realm of technology, and the semiconductor industry is proving no exception. With the speed of innovation accelerating constantly, the risk of a...
View ArticleInnovator or troll, Intellectual Ventures remains a mystery
Intellectual Ventures paints itself a champion of innovation and a liberator of inventors. More and more detractors consider the patent private equity firm steered by polymath Nathan Myhrvold a giant...
View ArticleTrolls: if you can't beat 'em...
While certainly not the only company embarking down the path towards licensing and litigation revenue, Freescale Semiconductors (NYSE: FSL) seems to be showing an increased focus upon this particular...
View ArticleCorporate love for litigation
NPEs historically get a pretty raw deal when it comes to PR, with article after article amounting against the practice of essentially turning patents into commodities. The tides have slowly been...
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