by hollyvic | Feb 18, 2014 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News |
Non-practicing entities (NPEs) are nothing new in the world of patent litigation, but this past October, NPE litigation reached a new level when the Rockstar Consortium filed an infringement suit in the Eastern District of Texas. Rockstar Consortium (not to be...
by cdszczep | Feb 17, 2014 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News, Technology |
On February 5, 2014, Google and Cisco announced a long-term cross-licensing deal. The agreement permits either company to utilize the other company’s patent portfolio. That day, Cisco also agreed to a similar cross-licensing agreement with Samsung. Last week,...
by arid | Feb 11, 2014 | Commentary |
In January, the Google patent machine churned out this latest patent entitled “transportation-aware physical advertising conversions.” The patent describes a method of weighing the profit an advertiser could expect to make from a potential customer, the likelihood of...
by jachang | Feb 9, 2014 | Commentary |
Project finance is a method of nonrecourse financing that “is not primarily dependent on the credit support of the [project] sponsors or the value of the physical assets involved,” but rather depends upon the expected “performance of the project itself.” [1] This...
by bjunter | Feb 4, 2014 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News |
Google and Samsung have announced a substantial and long-term cross-licensing agreement. This agreement will allow the companies to use each other’s existing patents, and any new patents filed, for the next 10 years. [1] Cross-licensing is a contract between two...
by seanlk | Dec 13, 2013 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News |
It’s often said that it’s better for a guilty person to go free than for the innocent to be wrongfully convicted. Recently, the state of Massachusetts released over 300 criminal defendants from prison and hundreds have had their charges dismissed amid a crime...
