ArticleExpansion Of Bell Northern Research Campaign Involves A Race To The CourthouseTCL's DJ action and Bell Northern's affirmative case against TCL were filed on the same day.United StatesIntellectual PropertyRPX Corporation
ArticleIdaho's Bad-Faith Assertion Statute Not Federally Preempted, State Argues In Longhorn IP SuitThis summer saw the escalation of a long-running fight between Longhorn IP LLC and Micron ..United StatesIntellectual PropertyRPX Corporation
ArticleOverriding Autopilot: Driver Interaction At Center Of Second ARSUS SuitInventor-controlled ARSUS LLC has taken another swing against Tesla in its ongoing driver assistance campaign, shifting from the Northern District of California to the Western District of Texas in the process. United StatesIntellectual PropertyRPX Corporation
ArticlePatent Owners Have No "Freestanding" Right To PTAB RPI Determination, Rules Federal CircuitThe Federal Circuit has issued a precedential decision that further clarifies the extent to which patent owners may appeal final written decisions (FWDs) from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). United StatesIntellectual PropertyRPX Corporation
ArticleCedar Lane, Elsewhere Ordered To Show Cause In Light Of Failure To Prosecute, Targets Streaming Services In Another Round Of SuitsCedar Lane Technologies Inc. continues to add defendants to its earliest, and largest, campaign, begun in May 2019 and quickly growing to hit almost 70 defendants with overlapping subsets of...United StatesIntellectual PropertyRPX Corporation
ArticleMalikie Hits Two More, Pictiva Secures Consolidation, Valtrus Seeks SanctionsCoplaintiffs Malikie Innovations Limited (as "the successor-in-interest to a substantial patent portfolio created and procured over many years...United StatesIntellectual PropertyRPX Corporation
ArticleSpotlight On Upcoming Oral Arguments – April 2021The following telephone arguments will be available to the public live. Access information will be available by 9 AM ET each day of argument ...United StatesIntellectual PropertyFinnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP
ArticleJudge Albright's Place Atop The List Of Busiest US Patent Judges Threatened By New West Texas OrderWestern District of Texas Judge Alan D. Albright has been the nation's top patent judge since Q1 2020, but a major new change may soon bring that controversial status to an end. United StatesIntellectual PropertyRPX Corporation
ArticleMicroPairing's In-Vehicle Infotainment Campaign Also Sees Another RoundOctober 2020 defendants GM and Toyota have each filed separate motions to dismiss MicroPairing's inducement of infringement claims before District Judge Alan D. Albright. United StatesIntellectual PropertyRPX Corporation
ArticleK.Mizra Asserts Former Intel Patents Against BroadcomIn a new Western District of Texas complaint, K.Mizra LLC has sued Broadcom (7:25-cv-00164) over the provision of devices (i.e., chipsets and Systems-on-Chip (SoCs)) that support...United StatesIntellectual PropertyRPX Corporation
ArticleDominion's Litigation Over Former Avaya Portfolio Moves From Comcast To T-MobileLast September, Arlington Technologies, LLC, a Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC plaintiff, filed its first litigation over a large portfolio of former Avaya patents received...United StatesIntellectual PropertyRPX Corporation
ArticleBig June Wave Of Cases In Wireless Networking Campaign Sees Several Follow-On FilingsThe June wave arrives as the prior, 2017 wave of litigation from the same plaintiff comes back to life at the conclusion of a set of inter partes reviews (IPRs) of three patents asserted previously...United StatesIntellectual PropertyRPX Corporation
ArticleContinental Circuits Plaintiffs Sue Apple, TSMC For Past DamagesFollowing similar suits filed in May against AMD, MediaTek, and Samsung, plaintiffs Continental Circuits LLC (as patent holder) and Continental Circuits of Texas LLC (as exclusive licensee)...United StatesIntellectual PropertyRPX Corporation
ArticleFederal Circuit Declines To Fix VoIP-Pal's "Problem Of [Its] Own Making"The Federal Circuit has decided not to come to the rescue of VoIP-Pal.com, Inc. (VPLM) in one of the declaratory judgment (DJ) actions filed against it by Twitter. United StatesIntellectual PropertyRPX Corporation
ArticleJudge Albright "Goes Too Far" By Pushing Venue Rulings After Fact Discovery, Holds Federal CircuitThe Federal Circuit has issued another rebuke against Western District of Texas Judge Alan D. Albright over his approach to transfer timing.United StatesIntellectual PropertyRPX Corporation
ArticleInternational SEP Dispute Takes A US State Law DetourLitigation over standard essential patents (SEPs) typically involves a variety of interrelated issues, including questions over whether the parties have acted as willing licensors/licensees, the essentiality of the asserted patents, infringement, and validity. United StatesIntellectual PropertyRPX Corporation
ArticleJudge Gilstrap Sets Aside Jury's $847M Verdict In General Access Solutions CampaignThis summer, an Eastern District of Texas jury returned an $847M verdict in favor of General Access Solutions, Ltd. (f/k/a Access Solutions, Ltd.) (GAS). United StatesIntellectual PropertyRPX Corporation
ArticleLinKsmart Redirection Campaign Takes Flight…But Keeps One Case On The GroundThe original patent (6,779,118) issued in August 2004 with estimated priority date in May 1998 based on the filing of a provisional application. United StatesIntellectual PropertyRPX Corporation
ArticleNHK-Fintiv Challenge Sees Growing Stakeholder Interest As Judge Rejects USPTO Stay RequestOn December 3, the court then received a motion for leave to file an amicus brief in support of the plaintiffs from three entities: United StatesIntellectual PropertyRPX Corporation
ArticleSalesforce Gets The WSOU TreatmentWSOU closed out 2019 adding hundreds more Nokia patents to the over 4,000 assets that it received (from Nokia itself) in 2017. United StatesIntellectual PropertyRPX Corporation