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As the economy closes companies, here’s a patent monetisation primer

A nuts-and-bolts guide for a chief IP officer whose company faces trouble and whose CEO asks “What can we do with the patent portfolio?"

24 April 2024

So you want to be a chief IP officer?

Specialist recruiter Rene Chung discusses the necessary skills and the latest trends in the niche job market

28 March 2024

IAM’s Market Makers of 2023

Via Licensing Alliance’s Heath Hoglund takes the top spot in our annual ranking of the patent market’s most innovative and influential deal makers and decision takers

14 March 2024

Two critical takeaways from VLSI’s appellate loss of patent mega-verdict

The Federal Circuit reverses and vacates $2.54 billion jury verdict but opens the door for VLSI to make another run at a 10-figure damages recovery

25 January 2024

Damages trial do-over and entry of licence defence up next in VLSI v Intel saga

Docket Navigator data shows its not too common for patent challengers to raise a licence defence, so we looked into the success rates for these arguments

11 December 2023

Netflix is facing injunctions in Germany and Brazil, but what of its US patent litigation record?

As legal pressure mounts internationally against the video streaming service, we did a deep dive on Docket Navigator to see Netflix’s patent litigation history in the US

09 October 2023

Recent high-profile AV1 and VP9 assertions are not the first in US courts, data reveals

Docket Navigator research shows seven US district court cases related to new video codec AV1, and 56 cases mentioning older version VP9, showing the holes in the codecs' royalty-free licensing pledges

11 September 2023

IAM’s top takeaways from IPBC Global 2023

Litigation funding, looking beyond patents and driving business in new markets – our editorial team reflects on the key messages from the world’s leading IP conference

27 July 2023

How Netlist uses IP licensing negotiations to boost manufacturing

In an exclusive interview, CK (Chuck) Hong, CEO of memory module firm Netlist, recounts the birth of its patent licensing programme and how IP helps fuel its products business

10 May 2023

This week’s Netlist v Samsung jury trial is the tip of the iceberg

Docket Navigator research shows the case in trial is one of three in US federal courts and there are 12 pending IPRs

17 April 2023