Winning patent holder General Access Solutions proved infringement of 5G patents and its lawyer warns of massive implications for other wireless carriers and base station suppliers
Two deals could bring NPE risk but others stem from bankruptcies, buying and selling of business units and company product collaborations
Licence is a big breakthrough in the multimedia space for the Finnish company
Boris Teksler – current senior executive vice president and president of the Technology Business Group at Technicolor – has been appointed chief executive officer at Nevada-based NPE Unwired Planet. He will take up his new position on 1st June.…
14 April 2015
Ericsson and Nokia have told IAM that they will not be making licensing commitments under the new patent policy introduced by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The moves, which follow similar announcements by Qualcomm and…
10 April 2015
The cover story of the current issue of IAM, published online for our subscribers last week, explores the complex attitudes that the Japanese corporate world has towards patent monetisation – and towards NPEs in particular.As has been documented…
09 April 2015
Gerard Pannekoek, the president and CEO of Intellectual Property Exchange International (IPXI), has blamed its recent demise on a US patent system that inhibits good faith licensing negotiations and encourages potential licensees to shun talks until…
07 April 2015
Last 5th November, James Bessen and Michael Meurer wrote an article for the Boston Globe in which they claimed that patent trolls sponsored by foreign governments were emerging as a serious threat to American businesses; and that this was another…
05 April 2015
Mark Argento is a founding partner of boutique investment bank Lake Street Capital Markets and one of the leading analysts of public IP companies (PIPCOs). The businesses he covers include Acacia Research, TiVo, Unwired Planet and Vringo. He…
31 March 2015
An Indian mobile industry association last week submitted a report to the country’s government calling on regulators to rein in patent royalties being demanded of domestic handset makers by foreign companies, according to a story in the Economic…
30 March 2015
In February the standards setting organization the IEEE announced a number of significant changes to its patent policy – the terms which govern the licensing of a range of standard essential patents, particularly in the Wi-Fi space. Those changes…
24 March 2015
In the Data centre section of each issue of IAM magazine, we include tables outlining the preceding two months’ top assignors and assignees of patents as recorded at the US Patent and Trademark Office. The data – which is provided by ktMINE – ranks…
20 March 2015
We no longer think twice when we hear the CEO of a major Chinese tech company, when asked about future plans, launch into a discussion of patent portfolios and where they need to be made stronger. At least at the upper echelons of the corporate…
10 March 2015
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