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Tesla embroiled in $1 billion EV battery trade secret showdown

The case accuses a former equipment supplier of stealing lucrative IP and exposes the weakness in Musk’s tough anti-patent rhetoric

Consolidating related cases in the Western District of Texas just got harder

Chief Judge Alia Moses’ new requirement to file a motion with legal, factual justification prior to case consolidation is “a solution in search of a problem”, one attorney says

US appeals court to weigh scope of prior art in PTAB cases

Lynk Labs Inc v Samsung Electronics Co questions the interpretation of patent applications as prior art printed publications, and the prior art date to be the application filing date

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Software assets dominate market: patent transactions in Q1 2024

AST reports that deal numbers were influenced by economic conditions, trends in litigation funding, licensing cycles, and operating companies selling non-core assets

04 June 2024

CATL: the EV giant turning to IP licensing

Featured in Special Report 2024 Q1: Auto

04 April 2024

Patent transactions in Q4 2023

Featured in Secondary Market Activity

AST’s most recent patent deals report measures an uptick in activity in the US patent secondary market

07 March 2024

Driving an industrial company to success in the intangible economy

The ASSA ABLOY IP Framework extends the scope of IP to include not only technological and brand assets, but also knowledge, data, organisational and relational assets

02 February 2024

Patent transactions in Q3 2023

Featured in Secondary Market Activity

The latest AST Patent Deals Report shows assets being transacted by the likes of Huawei and Intel on the sell side, and Philips and Softbank on the buy side

24 November 2023

Samsung Display faces off with China’s BOE in ITC trade secrets spat

A recent complaint alleging OLED technology theft is evidence of the International Trade Commission’s growing importance as a trade secret litigation venue

15 November 2023

Keeping trade secrets "secret" can trump open justice

A recent English Court of Appeal ruling to keep confidential information under wraps offers comfort to IP owners

03 November 2023

Fujifilm uses UPC to sue old adversary Kodak

The Japanese photography giant’s actions stir old conflicts and boost the small number of East Asian companies using the new court

27 October 2023

Patent transactions in Q2 2023

Featured in Secondary Market Activity

The surge is due to 9,702 US patent assets involved in the BlackBerry sale to Key Patent Innovations, which runs Malikie Innovations, according to the AST Patent Deals Report for Q2 2023

15 September 2023

US appellate court’s ruling over design drawings sends a strong message to trade secret owners

Companies who spend vastly on R&D must have adequate protection in place when seeking patents, with ample evidence for demonstrating that

18 August 2023

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