$12.2B: Counting the Cost
May 4, 2015
This month, RPX completed its third and most comprehensive annual NPE Cost Report to date—a study of thousands of NPE litigations and the cost to operating companies to resolve them. While the full report is provided only to study partici...
Read full postA Gift of Transparency: Public PAEs
April 16, 2015
As a business that prizes transparency, no one loves an open book more than we do at RPX. In this regard, the ongoing “stories” of publicly traded patent assertion entities (PAEs) offer a unique gift: access to information usually kept ...
Read full postNPE Model Still Alive and Kicking
April 1, 2015
In 1897, Mark Twain ironically told a newspaper that reports of his death had been “greatly exaggerated”. NPEs might be feeling equally bemused today. While many observers have interpreted a decline in new NPE litigation in the latter h...
Read full postLitigation Events: Cost Drivers
March 25, 2015
It’s common sense that the cost of any litigation would increase the longer it runs. Particularly in patent disputes, it’s likewise obvious that certain events in litigation—claim construction, for example, in which key words or phras...
Read full post2014 NPE Litigation: New and Smaller Targets
January 9, 2015
For several years now, RPX has been building an increasingly comprehensive and detailed database on patent litigation. We will be publishing our latest update soon, and this 2014 NPE Litigation Report—which builds on the data we publishe...
Read full postThe Power of Preemptive Patent Buying
December 2, 2014
RPX was founded on the principle of efficient markets, and we have always believed that it is far more cost-effective to transfer patent value between users and owners through a transparent, collaborative, open market rather than litigation...
Read full postHow Do Alleged and Declared Standard Essential Patents Fare in Litigation?
November 11, 2014
At RPX we have long wondered if patents alleged or declared to be SEPs are actually as essential as claimed. So we set out to analyze how SEPs have fared in judicial settings. We began by identifying a universe of 380 patents that, since 20...
Read full postCulling the Software Patent Herd
September 30, 2014
Reporting on the recent flurry of federal court decisions invalidating software patents, the Wall Street Journal’s Ashby Jones likened the results to declaring “open season” on such patents. Clearly the courts are viewing claims o...
Read full postSticks and Stones
May 22, 2014
To paraphrase an old saying, the first casualty in any legislative war is the truth. Case in point: a report* issued recently by the Heritage Foundation that includes several clear inaccuracies about the patent reform debate, in general, an...
Read full postNo Major Surprises in 2013 NPE Litigation Report: Cases, Total Defendants, and Unique Defendants All Up
May 6, 2014
RPX was founded on the belief that the current litigation-centric approach to monetizing patent value is deeply flawed. The rational way to determine—and effectively transfer—asset value is through an open, non-confrontational market ap...
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