Organisation: USAA

IAM’s Market Makers of 2023 

Via Licensing Alliance’s Heath Hoglund takes the top spot in our annual ranking of the patent market’s most innovative and influential deal makers and decision takers

14 March 2024

Meet the man who helps innovative operating companies realise huge patent ROI

Ron Epstein’s IP advisory firm acts as “virtual in-house counsel” for small companies and his recent successes include a $150 million settlement for one client and half-a-billion in verdicts for another

01 March 2023

An almost billion-dollar award leads 2022’s top 10 US patent verdicts

Companies who scored the most from US juries during the past 12 months include VLSI Technology, Complete Genomics Inc, Ravgen Inc, USAA and Columbia University

19 December 2022

Revealed: US filing trends, patent verdicts and competitor litigation detente

The second instalment of the joint IAM-Docket Navigator US litigation report focuses on the most contentious technology centres in 2022’s third quarter

18 November 2022

Top patentee jury verdicts from US courts in the third quarter

Here’s a look at the data about the rights’ holders and dollar sums behind the 31 patent damages awards from 1 July to 30 September

17 October 2022

US armed forces insurer bags more than half a billion dollars in cheque deposit patent assertion campaign

USAA also has an impressive track record fending off PTAB attacks on its assets, according to Docket Navigator

26 September 2022

Open-source assertions against banks doubled in 2021, new research finds

OIN and LOT Network see increased interest from the sector as financial institutions become an increasingly attractive target for PAEs

21 June 2022

Irell litigator has a long track record of nine-figure patent verdicts

USAA's recent $218.5 million verdict against PNC Bank is just one of the recent hundred-million dollar awards racked up by Irell & Manella partner Jason Sheasby, exclusive Docket Navigator data shows

23 May 2022

NPE litigation in the US bounces back 

The Long Read: Sector-by-sector analysis reveals that transport, financial services and networking all recorded triple-digit percentage growth in patent suits filed by non-practising entities between 2018 and 2020, writes IAM data reporter Bridget Diakun

22 September 2021

Five takeaways from Fortress’s $2 billion patent damages win over Intel

Huge verdict from the Western District of Texas helps investment giant get over its recent Uniloc struggles and highlights once again why semiconductor industry is the hottest licensing space around

09 March 2021

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