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| 25.08.2026 | Patent Troll SLAPPs Lawyer For Saying His Shell Companies Never Pay Up, Loses, Now Owes Her Money | With everything else going on in the world, it’s been a while since we’ve dug into a good old-fashioned patent troll story or a bogus defamation SLAPP. Today we’ve got a two-for-one. Leigh Rothschild is a patent troll of some renown — his e... |
| 04.08.2026 | WestView Capital Partners Completes Sale of Unified Patents to Anaqua | Boston, MA – August 4, 2026 – WestView Capital Partners (“WestView”), a Boston-based growth equity firm, announced today that it has completed the sale of Unified Patents (“Unified”) to Anaqua, the leading provider of intellectual property ... |
| 05.03.2026 | Подписка на патенты: новая бизнес-модель для изобретателей и компаний? | Традиционная торговля патентами напоминает рынок недвижимости — долгие переговоры, высокие транзакционные издержки, единовременные выплаты и сложные юридические конструкции.
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| 04.08.2025 | EZO Joins Unified Patents and LOT Network to Advance Responsible IP Practices and Industry Collaboration | logo
Champions Transparency and Teamwork to Streamline the Patent Process
AUSTIN,Texas, Aug. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Today, EZO, a leading provider of intelligent asset management solutions, announced it has joined Unified Patents and... |
| 27.03.2025 | New USPTO Memo Makes Fighting Patent Trolls Even Harder | The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) just made a move that will protect bad patents at the expense of everyone else. In a memo released February 28, the USPTO further restricted access to inter partes review, or IPR—the process Cong... |
| 05.10.2024 | Innovations and Challenges in Tech and Environmental Solutions: A Weekly Digest | In the fast-paced world of technology and environmental solutions, innovation is the lifeblood that keeps industries thriving. This week, we dive into the latest breakthroughs from major players like Apple and Samsung, while also examining ... |
| 05.10.2024 | The Innovation Race: Tech Giants and the Future of Patents | In the fast-paced world of technology, innovation is the name of the game. Companies like Apple, Samsung, and Nintendo are racing to capture the future. Their latest patents reveal a landscape rich with potential. From smart batteries to vi... |
| 05.10.2024 | В Apple изобразили басы, в Samsung уменьшили батарею, а в крипте воюют с троллями: дайджест главных новостей | В Купертино патентуют общение с колонкой взглядом, а в Нью-Йорке — очистку кожи от личных данных. Главное за неделю в сфере интеллектуальной собственности в нашем дайджесте.
Samsung представили «батарею мечты» для wearables
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| 18.09.2024 | Patents for software and genetic code could be revived by two bills in Congress | Enlarge / An image from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, where in 1874, the newest thing was not software or genetic compositions, but shutter fastenings from H.L. Norton.
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| 28.07.2023 | The anatomy of a patent litigation target | Intellectual property (IP) protection can be a vital part of a company’s journey from young upstart to billion-dollar behemoth, safeguarding all its technologists’ hard work while adding to the company’s value for investors or would-be acqu... |
| 28.02.2023 | Stupid Patent Of The Month: Clocking In To Work—On An App | What if we told you the Stupid Patent of the Month has a sponsor, but we don’t know who it is? That would seem shady, wouldn’t it? |
| 08.06.2022 | Patent Troll Uses Ridiculous “People Finder” Patent To Sue Small Dating Companies | Finding people near you with shared interests, and talking to them, has a very long history in human culture. We’re social animals. We need to find other people close to us to work together with, play games with, and build relationships and... |
| 29.03.2022 | LOT Network surpasses 2,000 membership milestone – now counts four of the top five largest patent holders in the world among its membership | LOT Network surpasses 2,000 membership milestone “In seven short years, LOT Network has rapidly transitioned from an experiment of the high-tech industry, to the largest global community of companies solving the PAE issue,” said Ken Seddon,... |
| 12.12.2021 | The US Patent and Trademark Office should act now to catalyze innovation | Steven R. Rogers Contributor
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Steven R. Rodgers is executive vice president and general counsel of Intel Corporation, where he serves on the senior executive team and oversees the company's legal, government and trade groups... |
| 23.07.2021 | 10 Steps The Biden-Harris Administration Should Take To Bring Equity To Our Patent System | This post is one of a series of posts we’re running this week in support of Patent Quality Week, exploring how better patent quality is key to stopping efforts that hinder innovation. |
| 23.07.2021 | 10 Steps The Biden-Harris Administration Should Take To Bring Equity To Our Patent System | This post is one of a series of posts we're running this week in support of Patent Quality Week, exploring how better patent quality is key to stopping efforts that hinder innovation. |
| 21.05.2021 | How A Camera Patent Was Used To Sue Non-Profits, Cities, And Public Schools | Patent trolls are everyone’s problem. A study from 2019 showed that 32% of patent troll lawsuits are directed at small and medium-sized businesses. We told the stories of some of those small businesses in our Saved by Alice project. |
| 21.05.2021 | How A Camera Patent Was Used To Sue Non-Profits, Cities, And Public Schools | Patent trolls are everyone?s problem. A study from 2019 showed that 32% of patent troll lawsuits are directed at small and medium-sized businesses. We told the stories of some of those small businesses in our Saved by Alice project. |
| 16.02.2021 | CobbleStone Software Finishes 2020 With Record-Breaking Growth | "We are truly grateful and humbled by the opportunity to serve so many leading-edge organizations from a vast array of industries in 2020 and in the many years prior; we look forward to continuing CobbleStone’s success in 2021." -... |
| 14.01.2021 | CobbleStone Software Announces Membership With Unified Patents, LLC | “We feel that CobbleStone Software’s membership with Unified Patents will help support the community for proper IP protection,” says Mark Nastasi, Executive Vice President of CobbleStone Software.
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| 11.01.2021 | CobbleStone Software Announces Membership With United Patents, LLC | “We feel that CobbleStone Software’s membership with Unified Patents will help support the community for proper IP protection,” says Mark Nastasi, Executive Vice President of CobbleStone Software.
PRINCETON, N.J. (PRWEB) January 11, 2021
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| 05.11.2020 | People With Silly Patents Would Really Like It If It Was Harder To Cancel Them | A large group of patent holders sent a letter to Congress expressing concern that, since the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director Iancu might soon be leaving, recent policies making it harder to challenge bad patents might be rev... |
| 06.04.2020 | Predictive Text Patent Troll Tries To Shake Down Wikipedia | WordLogic is a patent troll. The company has been around for a while and holds a bunch of patents (such as US Patent 7,681,124) which it claims covers the concept of predictive text writing. While WordLogic is (was?) a publicly listed compa... |
| 31.01.2019 | Stupid Patent Of The Month: IBM's Software Patent On Texting And Driving | In the smartphone era, “distracted driving” is a serious, and well-known, problem. Official warnings about poor driving habits are as old as the automobile itself. The New York Times published a Pulitzer-winning series on distracted driving... |
| 27.04.2018 | Stupid Patent Of The Month: Suggesting Reading Material | Online businesses?like businesses everywhere?are full of suggestions. If you order a burger, you might want fries with that. If you read Popular Science, you might like reading Popular Mechanics. Those kinds of suggestions are a very old pa... |
| 28.12.2017 | Stupid Patent Of The Month: Motivational Health Messaging LLC Gets A Patent On Sending Uplifting Texts | Have you ever sent a motivational text to a friend? If you have, perhaps you tailored your message to an activity or location by saying “Good luck in the race!” or “Have fun in New York!” Now, imagine doing this automatically with a compuuu... |
| 21.12.2017 | Stupid patent of the month: Motivational texts | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Have you ever sent a motivational text to a friend? If you have, perhaps you tailored your message to an activity or location by saying... |
| 12.07.2017 | US tech giants unite to fight patent trolls | A collection of the world's largest technology companies have teamed up to form a lobbying group in an effort to push through rules that would make it more difficult for patent trolls to operate in the US.
The High Tech Innovators Alliance ... |
| 22.02.2017 | Why tech companies of all sizes are embracing business-led solutions to IP protection | The tech industry has long been a favorite target for patent trolls. While tech companies strive to innovate, patent trolls see opportunities to monetize the patents they’ve acquired by suing operating tech companies.
Today, patent trolls a... |
| 17.08.2016 | Why startups need a defensive IP strategy | Joe Medved Contributor
Joe Medved is partner of SoftBank Capital at Lerer Hippeau Ventures.
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| 02.04.2016 | Unicorns fall short on fighting patent trolls | When it comes to dealing with patent trolls, we’re seeing a big difference between how the tech giants (Apple, Google, etc.) handle the problem and how unicorns do. And it’s the unicorns that are playing a worse hand.
Although about a third... |
| 12.02.2016 | How Tech Can Shut Down Patent Trolls | Ken Seddon Contributor
Ken Seddon is the CEO of LOT Network, a nonprofit trade association committed to protecting its members from patent troll litigation.
The trolls of mythology can be conquered with lightning, church bells or heroic cun... |
| 05.10.2015 | Patent Owner Insists 'Integers' Do Not Include The Number One | Patent trolls are a tax on innovation. The classic troll model doesn’t include transferring technology to create new products. Rather, trolls identify operating companies and demand payment for what companies are already doing. Data from Un... |
| 17.09.2015 | How innovation-killing trolls toppled the patent process | Nearly everyone who isn’t a lawyer agrees: intellectual property law is a mess. And the monopolies granted by patent and copyright law have begun to hamper the very innovation they were designed to encourage.
The US Patent and Trademark Off... |
| 18.08.2015 | Why Patent Trolls Love East Texas… And Why Congress Needs To Fix It | Back in 2011, This American Life toured an office building in Marshall, Texas, and found eerie hallways of empty offices that serve as the ‘headquarters’ of patent trolls. For many, that was the first introduction to the strange world of th... |
| 14.07.2015 | Patent Trolls Strike Back: Trolling Rebounds After Brief Supreme Court-Enabled Dip | Following last year’s pretty good Supreme Court ruling in the Alice v. CLS Bank case, which effectively wiped out the basis of many software and business method patents by saying you couldn’t get a patent on “generic” functions, there was a... |
| - | Активность патентных троллей приближается к историческому максимуму | Патентными троллями, как правило, называют компании, которые не имеют никакой другой прибыли кроме той, которую получают от судебных исков и приобретения лицензий на пользование патентами.
Новые статистические данные были опубликованы орган... |
