Select Public PAEs Thrive While Many Struggle
April 14, 2016
While finalizing our latest quarterly report on publicly traded patent assertion entities (PAEs), Unwired Planet—one of the 23 public PAEs we’ve been tracking—announced its intention to exit the IP licensing business. Public PAEs have...
Read full postOf Spikes and Means: Q1 2016 Litigation Data
April 5, 2016
The first quarter of 2016 is in the books, and no doubt the level of NPE litigation activity has dipped. Defendants added to NPE campaigns in Q1 of 2016 total 496, about half the number added during the same quarter in 2015 and in 2014. Tha...
Read full postA Closer Look at Claim Construction in IPR and CBM
March 7, 2016
The US Supreme Court agreed to hear oral argument in Cuozzo Speed Technologies, LLC v. Lee, a case focused on the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB’s) inter partes review (IPR) process. RPX has taken a look at the statistics unde...
Read full postSupreme Court’s First 2016 Cases Carry Potential for Patent Holders
February 16, 2016
Next week, the US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on the first of two patent issues that it has agreed so far to resolve this year: one involving damages awards and the other inter partes review. In both matters, a win for the peti...
Read full post2015: Facing Headwinds, NPEs Persist
January 4, 2016
A first look at data related to NPE litigation and the patent market during the past year shows that activity rebounded in 2015, after what now appears to have been a slowdown in the latter half of 2014. As described in our RPX 2015 NPE Ac...
Read full postRising and Falling: IPRs at Institution
October 19, 2015
The inter partes review (IPR) has been a popular route for challenging patent validity since it was introduced. A look at the data since September 2012 confirms this growing popularity: the number of petitions filed, and therefore institu...
Read full postSeasonal Doldrums Aside, NPE Activity Remains Robust
October 1, 2015
The third quarter of 2015 brought a lull in NPE litigation activity—however, activity levels during the first nine months of the year overall exceeded those for the same period in 2014 and remained comparable to previous years (see Figure...
Read full postOn the Campaign Trail: Data Show Shift in NPE Behavior
August 17, 2015
In last month’s blog post, RPX reported a surge in NPE litigation in the first half of 2015 based on cases filed and defendants added. A look at the same data through another filter—NPE litigation campaigns—adds further insight into ...
Read full postNPE Litigation Surges in First Half of 2015
July 20, 2015
By all measures, patent litigation is up so far in 2015: NPEs are more active than they have been in the last few years, especially against small companies. It also appears that NPEs are tracking recent changes in Congress and in the courts...
Read full postIPRs: Reality Amid the Pyrotechnics
July 2, 2015
Like a good Fourth of July fireworks show, the debate over patent reform has been colorful and noisy—but only partially and sporadically illuminating. This has been especially true of the discussion around IPRs (inter partes reviews). A c...
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