Peter Shipley is a Bay Area hacker and patent-holder who sues technology companies under the corporate name Enhanced Security Research, LLC. In 2007, ESR sued Juniper Networks in district court in California for patent infringement. Juniper struck back in February

The Bilski case is heading towards a resolution at the Supreme Court, and 44 amicus briefs already await the justices—with more to come.One of those briefs is from Gary Odom. Odom is a litigation consultant who claims he

The Patent Litigation Weekly column took a hiatus last week as I worked on IPLB’s annual patent litigation survey and an upcoming cover story. To hold over readers, here’s some interesting copyright & patent reading from the past week:

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Last week, The Prior Art interviewed former Fish & Richardson partner Scott Harris in connection with a pair of infringement suits filed based on patents issued in his name. Harris says those patents cover important inventions he came up

Bedrock Computer Technologies is a patent-holding company owned by David Garrod, a former Goodwin Procter lawyer. Last month, I wrote about Bedrock’s lawsuit against several of the biggest Internet companies—and CitiWare Technology Solutions, a tiny Longview, Texas software company. Since

Scott Harris has been an inventor since he was 12. Later on, he became a lawyer. About two years ago, Harris’s name started popping up in patent lawsuits. Ultimately, his involvement in the patent-enforcement business caused him to split

The April/May issue of IP Law & Business featured a story about Robert Shafer, a Stanford University researcher whose free HIV database had become embroiled in a patent dispute that led Shafer to believe medical method patents are out