Earlier this month, MDB Capital Group–an IP-focused investment bank that promises to help investors understand “the hidden value of intellectual property assets and future technological leadership”–held what it billed as its first annual “Bright Lights” intellectual property conference, bringing together

This week: Japanese office equipment manufacturer Ricoh tried to cash in on patent litigation in a market in which it no longer competes—and succeeded. But when it sought an injunction, the company didn’t make out any better than your run-of-the-mill

This week: A closer at the holding company behind recent suits against smartphone makers Research in Motion, HTC, and, most interestingly, Apple. MobileMedia Ideas LLC didn’t create a big stir when it launched in January. Instead, the holding company simply

While the patent world awaits a Bilski ruling that could have a dramatic impact on business-method patents, an East Texas trial victory in a case involving, yup, business-method patents adds fuel into a what could become a billion-dollar licensing campaign

This week, a Scott Harris patent bites the bar-code dust, for now. And a close look at how it made its way from application to the courtroom shows how a lawyer-inventor was able to claim that FedEx infringed his intellectual

Last year, several doctors’ groups, together with the ACLU and Public Patent Foundation, filed a lawsuit seeking to invalidate patents on two genes related to breast cancer and owned by Utah-based Myriad Genetics. The plaintiffs, who can be viewed as