Patent Litigation Statistics for January 2008
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| At long last, here are my January 2008 patent litigation statistics. In
| total, PACER/ECF showed 230 patent cases filed in January 2008, compared to
| 210 in January 2007. This is a 10% year-to-year increase.
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http://trolltracker.blogspot.com/2008/02/patent-litigation-statistics-for.html
More litigation = more innovation???
Related:
Patent Exhaustion
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| Okay, this post is a bit inside baseball. But some lawyers and law students
| may at least find this of interest. In an upcoming case, Quanta v. LG
| Electronics, the Supreme Court may refine the "patent exhaustion" doctrine to
| make it more difficult for patentees to extract royalties from multiple
| parties for the same device.
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http://blog.mises.org/archives/007729.asp
Congress: Reform Those Patents
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| As the largest holder of U.S. patents, we feel it is our responsibility, and
| the right time, to speak out forcefully in favor of reform. We are trying to
| do our share by unilaterally publishing a first-ever corporate policy aimed
| at promoting patent transparency and quality. We also initiated, and with
| others in the private sector, are working with the U.S. Patent & Trademark
| Office to ensure that citizens have a voice in the patent review process.
|
| But these voluntary efforts, along with recent wise Supreme Court decisions,
| are not enough.
|
| Progress, not perfection, is the goal. It was so from Eli Whitney's time, and
| is true today. Congress finally has an historic opportunity to address the
| thorniest of modern challenges, to secure America's continued role as the
| leading innovator in the global economy.
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http://www.forbes.com/opinions/2007/12/24/ibm-patents-congress-oped-cx_rwe_1226ibm.html
Yahoo Patent Troll
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvFUSHwRXJE
Who is the world's biggest patent troll?
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| In two consecutive days, The Wall Street Journal presented two different
| answers. The first is not surprising: Intellectual Ventures, the brainchild
| of ex-Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold. It's now out "to raise as much as
| $1 billion to help develop and patent inventions, many of them from
| universities in Asia."
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9816163-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Playing Microsoft Patent Poker
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| This time though, while Ballmer slinks away to try to con … convince people
| that Microsoft Unified Communications somehow offers people more than what
| Cisco's VOIP (voice over IP) been offering customers for years, a patent
| attack finally launches at Linux. Specifically, IP Innovation, a subsidiary
| of Acacia Technologies Group, has filed a patent infringement claim against
| Linux distributors Novell and Red Hat.
|
| So was it just timing, or was it something more? Let's take a look at the
| players.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2201579,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000616
Friday Patent Litigation News
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| Reader Anthony Sabatini of New York writes to tell me that the auto-text
| patent asserted by Acacia subsidiary AutoText in Cleveland might be invalid
| in light of the Control Data Corp CDC6600 console system developed two
| decades earlier.
|
| [...]
|
| Finally, IP Innovation and Technology Licensing Corp. -- in other words,
| ACACIA -- filed a lawsuit in Marshall against Google, accusing Google's
| search engine and Google Earth of infringing two patents. This is the same
| Acacia sub that sued Red Hat and Novell over Linux, with the same lawyers -
| Johnny Ward and Eric Albritton. But these are different patents. The patents
| asserted against Google are 5,276,785 and 5,675,819, which Acacia got from
| Xerox. Nice going, Xerox.
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http://trolltracker.blogspot.com/2007/11/friday-patent-litigation-news.html
Acacia and Niro File Another Multi-Defendant Lawsuit on JPEG-on-a-Website
Patent, Bringing Total to 16 Companies Sued
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| Assuming it files one per month for the next 39 months until the patent
| expires, then what Acacia is really seeking is $600M from US industry for the
| JPEG-on-a-website patent. My guess is they’ll sue many more companies than
| that, and seek up to a billion dollars – which, assuming a 33% contingency
| fee (which is low, probably), amounts to a cool $100 million per year for the
| Niro firm.
|
| And people wonder why he’d like to shut down websites critical of Acacia and
| other patent trolls. The real question is what does he want from you and me,
| for our photo blogs, our personal websites. His statements to IP Law 360 only
| referred to companies.
|
| The other real question is how many companies will spend millions in
| attorneys fees to fight rather than pay the $500K or $1M or $2M that Acacia
| is demanding. That's the sad state of patent litigation these days.
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http://trolltracker.blogspot.com/2007/12/acacia-and-niro-file-another-multi.html
Most of Chinese New Patents Are Garbage
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| On November 27, 2007, the Innovative National Construction and Intellectual
| Property Symposium was held in Beijing. Representatives from a variety of
| industries spoke at the event; most of them expressed their worries and
| frustrations with China’s IPR protection framework. Mr. Fu Shaoming, head of
| the IPR unit from Foxconn, China’s largest electronics OEM firm, claimed in
| his speech that 90% of China's new and practical patents are de facto garbage
| and should be discarded.
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http://www.chinatzone.com/news_dls.php?id=476&category=USITO%20Weekly%20China%20%20Summary
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