Frivolous suits may have reached a new, dangerous level in one firm’s alleged $1 million bounty for third-party legal ...

Apple and other multinationals are fed up with being sued by patent trolls. Apple is among the companies which want to stop so-called patent trolls from stifling innovation with their claims. A patent ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (Legal Newsline) – Washington State Gov. Jay Inslee signed Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s patent troll bill into law over the weekend. On Saturday, Inslee approved the Patent Troll ...

The right to self-defense is ingrained in the American tradition. At its core is the understanding that liberty is tied to the ability to defend yourself. New rules proposed by the U.S. Patent and ...

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 ...

eginning Dec. 1, it became a hell of a lot harder for patent trolls to file their bogus lawsuits seeking to extort money from companies that actually make things. In the past, a no-name LLC or ...

U.S. lawmakers are preparing to act on a pair of bills that aim to crack down on so-called “patent trolls,” which are firms or investment funds that don’t actually build anything, but whose main ...

Imagine your company is suddenly inundated with dozens of baseless patent infringement lawsuits. This scenario is becoming all too common as corporate America grapples with a post-COVID surge in ...

Apple is among the companies which want to stop so-called patent trolls from stifling innovation with their claims. A patent troll, for those unfamiliar with it, is a person or company that holds ...

The bills would crack down on misleading demand letters by trolls and establish criteria for when patent infringement allegations have been made in bad faith. The legislation was crafted by ...

The Internet Association (IA), National Restaurant Association (NRA), National Retail Federation (NRF) and the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) launched a print and radio advertising campaign in ...

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 — ...