A single court in rural East Texas has become the site of one of the biggest battles in Silicon Valley. Tech giants like Intel and Apple say the Eastern District of Texas, within the federal 5th Circuit, has become a haven for frivolous patent lawsuits, with favorable rulings often handed down to litigants that [...]
Plano, TX-based security tech provider Uniloc USA recently filed a pair of patent infringement suits in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (E.D. Tex.) in which Uniloc asserts a series of patents directed at conference call and voice over Internet (VoIP) technologies. The defendants, Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Internet services subsidiary Google and e-commerce giant Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN), are the latest [...]
Security and privacy concern over UAV, are risking as quickly as the expansion of the drone industry. In January 2015,, a drunk employee from US government intelligence agency crashed a drone on White House lawn, while in April of same year, a Japanese man was arrested for landing a drone carrying small amount of [...]
Several new green patents complaints were filed in January and February in areas of advanced batteries, waste to energy feedstock, energy efficient exercise equipments and LED’s. Advanced Batteries Advanced Electrolyte Technologies LLC et al. v. ESDI LLC et al. Advanced Electrolyte Technologies (AET) sued ESDI and several divisions of Samsung in a complaint filed [...]
The upcoming federal budget has been dubbed the innovation budget in Ottawa circles, but the founder of the centre of International Governance Innovation says it doesn’t mean much if the Canadian Government won’t heed calls to implement an intellectual right strategy. "Innovation without a national IP (intellectual property) strategy is philanthropy. You invent it, [...]
President Donald Trump, has issued an executive order , pertaining to streamline regulations by eliminating regulations that inhibit job creation, eliminate jobs, or that are inconsistent with government initiative and policies. The frequently asked question is whether patents are important for economic success or whether they are relevant for job creations or high paying [...]
