Industry: Semiconductors & semiconductor equipment

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

25 June 2024

NPE sells patents to Qualcomm, TSMC in close proximity to litigation settlements

Daedalus Prime had asserted former Intel patent assets against the semiconductor firms and now has sold patents to them

06 June 2024

Netlist's CEO on the patent that is the poster child of PTAB abuse

Chuck Hong discusses recent verdicts against Micron and Samsung and repeated attacks on his firm’s ‘912 patent in an exclusive IAM interview

06 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

Netlist scores $445M verdict against Micron, but is the patent valid?

The case underscores the problem of US district court juries and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board contradicting each other on questions of patent validity

30 May 2024

Docket Navigator and IAM Litigation Report Q1 2024

Featured in Docket Navigator and IAM Litigation Report

In this edition, our team puts the magnifying glass to Docket Navigator data on the Patent Trial and Appeal Board – case filing trends, institution success, IPR outcomes, and party and firm rankings

22 May 2024

Decision discord: when patent claims establishing liability at a trial get invalidated

G+ Communications v Samsung is the latest case where a patent challenger succeeded at the PTAB after a big jury verdict

20 May 2024

Patent licensing companies using dual UPC and US litigation strategy

Seven NPEs have filed 15 infringement actions in the pan-European court, and also filed litigation in US district courts

13 May 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

Via LA expands video codec pool to HEVC and VVC

TCL has become a joint licensor-licensee to the expanded pool offering which is a response to market demand and meant to ease the transition to the newest codec technology

03 April 2024

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