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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 — ...

A subject of extensive debate within the U.S. patent system has been the classification of “patent trolls”—most widely defined as individuals or companies that acquire patents solely for the purpose ...

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 ...

Our leadership in Texas is doing all it can to keep this state’s economy the envy of the nation. While ordinary Americans are still struggling with rampant inflation, unaffordable housing and new ...