A Company Filing an IPO Faces Elevated NPE Litigation Risk
October 2, 2020
An RPX analysis shows that litigation against a company going public increases around the date of its initial public offering (IPO) and that NPE plaintiffs file over 75% of the cases brought against those companies. RPX has derived this...
Read full postQ2 in Review: Second-Quarter NPE Filings Spike as Prior Patent Transfers Spark New Litigation
July 7, 2020
Patent litigation increased significantly in Q2 2020 despite the broader economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, with NPEs surging in the final days of June and operating companies outpacing prior second quarters. The first half ...
Read full postSupreme Court Holds That IPR Time Bar Decisions Cannot Be Appealed
April 28, 2020
The US Supreme Court has ruled that appellate review is not available for applications of the inter partes review (IPR) statutory time bar, under which a defendant may not file an IPR petition more than one year after being served with a pa...
Read full postQ1 in Review: First-Quarter Filings See a Bump, While Litigation Finance Bolsters a New Breed of Plaintiffs
April 8, 2020
In Q1 2020, NPEs and operating companies both filed significantly more patent litigation than in first quarters past, with NPEs in particular having their busiest Q1 since 2015. Defendants, meanwhile, faced the impact of judicial decisions ...
Read full postQ4 in Review: NPE Filings Rebound as Operating Company Litigation Declines
January 14, 2020
In the fourth quarter of 2019, patent litigation activity continued to climb as defendants faced ongoing headwinds, including judicial rulings casting uncertainty over several areas of patent law. District court filings in the fourth quarte...
Read full postExecutive Spotlight: RPX’s Head of Analytics on the State of Patent Litigation in 2019
November 19, 2019
We recently sat down with RPX’s Brian Howard, Vice President of Analytics, whose team analyzes RPX’s rich data to provide strategic insights on the patent industry. Prior to joining RPX in 2018, Mr. Howard was at Lex Machina, where he w...
Read full postFederal Circuit’s Decision on PTAB Judge Appointments May Affect Over 200 AIA Reviews
November 8, 2019
The Federal Circuit has held in Arthrex v. Smith & Nephew that the appointment of administrative patent judges (APJs) by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is unconstitutional. While the decision largely preserved the status quo b...
Read full postQ3 in Review: Litigation Ticks Upward as Alice Downturn Continues
October 8, 2019
Patent litigation filings continued to increase in the third quarter of 2019 against a backdrop of change in the courts and at the USPTO, as parties adjusted to a series of incremental reforms that tended to shift leverage toward patent pla...
Read full postExecutive Spotlight: Meet the Executive Focused on RPX’s Next Phase of Growth
August 6, 2019
Why did you want to work at RPX? Jon: There were three factors that made me want to work at RPX. First, I was an RPX client at IBM, which was a founding member of RPX, so sitting on the other side of the table enabled me to see the value of...
Read full postQ2 in Review: Alice Reined In as Invalidation Rate Drops, While Patent Litigation Picks Up
July 9, 2019
The end of the second quarter saw trends on patent eligibility come full circle as the US Supreme Court’s decision in Alice, a key defensive tool, has been significantly curtailed by ensuing case law as the ruling reaches its fifth annive...
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