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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

IP is a global business

Saturday Opinion: China is becoming increasingly self-sufficient, but complex technologies make innovation hard to achieve alone

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

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Micron targeted by Chinese semiconductor firm in US litigation

Yangtze Memory Technologies asserts that the US chipmaker infringes eight patents with its 3D NAND flash memory chips

15 November 2023

Adeia CEO on licensing success and video streaming expectations

In the second part of our exclusive interview, Paul Davis discusses how to convince licensees to agree to reveal their names and communicating with investors

16 October 2023

Adeia CEO dishes about firm’s first year of operations after Xperi spin-out

In an exclusive interview, Paul Davis reflects on growing his staff by 25%, working to break into greenfield licensing markets, striking major renewals with Samsung, and more

13 October 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

Apple’s “aggressive” trade secrets enforcement in Rivos case fuels noncompete clause debate

The chip startup is accusing Apple of using the DTSA to circumvent noncompete regulations in California

04 October 2023

Inventor firm’s $339M windfall from Google tops ranking of US patent jury verdicts in Q3

Touchstream Technologies’ victory is one of 17 jury verdicts that issued in 2023’s third quarter and 59% of them favoured patentees – but Q3 damages values dropped compared to Q1 and Q2

02 October 2023

China’s surge in semiconductor innovation

Faced with overseas sanctions and scrutiny, domestic companies are looking to boost their patent portfolios

29 September 2023

Does the impact of Markman orders vary by technology complexity?

Some patent litigators observe that patent disputes involving less complicated technologies tend to settle faster after claim construction. What does Docket Navigator data say?

27 September 2023

Three things to know about the US government’s new strategy for standards development

Here’s the critical background to know as innovators today participate in a USPTO listening session about the intersection between standards development and IP

20 September 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

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