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Huawei, Intel among big firms selling patents in June-recorded transactions

Two deals could bring NPE risk but others stem from bankruptcies, buying and selling of business units and company product collaborations

WiLAN buying portfolios, striking licences in first year as private monetisation firm

On the anniversary of Canadian patent licensing firm WiLAN’s sale to private investors, CEO Andrew Parolin boasts of a very successful 12 months in an exclusive IAM interview

Interesting Alice issue arises in case where Amazon owes $122 million for ad tech infringement

Most of the time courts resolve patent eligibility issues pre-trial but here the jury decided the second prong on “inventive concept” – in the patent holder’s favour

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New NPE NovaCloud to license 152 former Ericsson patent assets

The global portfolio of 40 patent families covers cloud computing and data centre technology and potential licensees include Microsoft, Amazon, Dell, IBM, Oracle and Salesforce

19 June 2024

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

Xiaomi sued at UPC by new Atlantic IP NPE following major patent transfer

NPEs seem to prefer the new European court to US courts when targeting the Chinese phone maker, which has become one of the Unified Patent Court’s most pursued defendants

03 June 2024

Case dismissed because of former IP counsels’ theft of Samsung’s confidential information

Evidence in the case shows “subversion of our adversarial system of litigation and an invasion of the attorney-client privilege”, Chief Judge Rodney Gilstrap ruled

31 May 2024

Adeia renews Panasonic licence, announces Q1 revenue

The San Jose-based patent licensing company also spent $8.5 million acquiring patents in the first quarter to strengthen its position in over-the-top streaming tech

10 May 2024

Malikie Innovations is busy one year after buying BlackBerry patents

From inking a deal within six months to eyeing the UPC – IP Head and IAM Market Maker Angela Quinlan reflects on the past 12 months in an exclusive interview

09 May 2024

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

Broadcom-VMWare withdrawal from LOT Network triggers membership spike

LOT CEO Ken Seddon says the only reason to withdraw is to enable the sale of patents to NPEs for monetisation

16 April 2024

Avaya sells 1,500 VoIP patent assets to Dominion Harbor

Arlington Technologies, a subsidiary of the Texas-based patent licensing business, will ramp up a licensing programme to target large technology and manufacturing companies

04 April 2024

Patent Armory aims to be a top-filing US NPE like Cedar Lane before it

“I’d like to see Patent Armory file at least as many cases this year as it did last year,” Patent Armory’s principal consultant Greg Benoit tells IAM in an exclusive interview

25 March 2024

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