In 2011, Apple and Google spent more money on patent litigation and defensive patent acquisitions than on research and development. That’s not a good sign for the U.S. economy; in fact, it’s a stark ...

Who should read this article? Companies sued by patent trolls (NPEs) [1] seeking to develop strategies to push back against NPE activity—and specifically companies in the following industries: ...

Minnesota legislators are trying to fix a growing problem hitting small to midsize businesses hard: so-called "patent trolls." Legislators want to block individuals or firms who buy patents — ...

Sable Networks and Cloudflare have battled for more than three years in federal courts over a series of patents owned by Sable, which the entity has accused Cloudflare of infringing. Cloudflare ...

In the battle against "patent trolls," two competing bills on Capitol Hill have emerged as the leading solutions to curb abusive patent litigation. In the battle against "patent trolls," two competing ...

Back in late 2011, a company named Innovatio threatened to sue 8,000 coffee shops, hotels, and stores around the United States, claiming that the Wi-Fi networks they had set up for their customers ...

North Carolina lawmakers are drafting legislation to combat patent trolls, shell companies that attempt to win quick settlements from businesses by threatening patent infringement lawsuits. "Patent ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Kansas treasury has been raking in money Patent trolls are shell companies that buy up old patents solely to sue productive ...

(NAPSI)—In local communities across America, the “next big idea” often takes shape in a garage, a small startup office or a community college lab. New American inventors and entrepreneurs are the ...

In the most straightforward of language, Google announced its very own patent marketplace on Monday. "We invite you to sell us your patents," reads the first sentence of the blog post announcing the ...

Last week, The Prior Art looked at new statistics contained in a report about the impact of non-practicing entities on patent litigation. The report's release comes two years after the demise of ...

Bitcoin’s use of elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), which is essential for generating key pairs and validating digital signatures, has drawn the attention of a nonpracticing entity (NPE), more ...