Intellectual Property

Patent Troll Firms ‘An Affront to American Ingenuity’

Patent troll lawsuits are “pure money plays,” and an “affront to American ingenuity [that] threatens our innovation-based economy,” the Progressive […]

Walking Out The Door With Trade Secrets

It’s one of the more difficult legal balancing acts in commercial jurisprudence: the right of employers to prevent misappropriation of […]

Law School Students Step In To Fight App Patent Trolls

Small app developers and other entrepreneurs threatened by patent troll litigation have a new force in their corner. It’s the […]

Supreme Court Will Take Up Lawyer Fees For Patent Cases

The Supreme Court has accepted for review two cases involving the potential award of attorney fees in patent cases. Both […]

For Health-Care Software Firms, Patent Trolls A Lurking Threat

A Government Accountability Office report shows that a majority of the uptick in patent litigation over the last five years […]

Cyber Attacks, Cost To Resolve Them, On The Rise

Companies and organizations are spending more money and time, more frequently, to resolve cyber-attacks, according to a study from HP […]

Patent Troll Firm Staging Fundraising Effort Finds Burned Bridges

Intellectual Ventures, often considered one of the major patent troll firms, has curtailed its patent buying in the last few […]

Patent Trolls, Under Fire, Ramp Up Lobbying Efforts

With Congress drafting a handful of bills targeting “patent trolls,” and the Federal Trade Commission using its subpoena power to […]

FTC, Claiming No Prejudgment, Will Investigate Trolls

The Federal Trade Commission said it would subpoena about 25 companies that buy and sell patents and 15 other companies that manufacture devices or write software.