A novel International Trade Commission case that expanded the limits of what the agency would consider a “domestic industry” has ended with the holding-company plaintiff that initiated that suit, Saxon Innovations, selling the lion’s share of its patents to patent-defense

The inventor who holds the patent that was at the heart of two libel lawsuits against “Patent Troll Tracker” blogger Rick Frenkel and Cisco Systems was arrested last week, after police found an illegal stockpile of firearms, ammunition, and grenades

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This week: the software giant’s hard-nosed strategy for dealing with patent-holding plaintiffs gets put to the test—and proves successful. Late last month, Google won its first patent infringement lawsuit to go to a jury trial, in the Eastern District of

Two years after Richard Frenkel—at the time an in-house Cisco Systems, Inc., lawyer and now of counsel at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati—outed himself as the until-then-anonymous author of the controversial patent litigation blog, the Patent Troll Tracker saga appears

FotoMedia is a patent-holding company that claims just about every photo-sharing website you can imagine infringes its three patents. Its lawsuits, covered by TPA last May and June, are notable not just for the audacity of the claims they

This week: The Prior Art returns after its winter blogging break. As Microsoft gets set to scrap software found to infringe a Canadian company’s software, The Prior Art discusses the case with three of the eight jurors whose verdict helped