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BTLJ Blog
April 14th, 2016
On February 3, 2016 a federal jury returned a verdict finding Apple guilty for willfully infringing four VirnetX Inc. patents in its products, including Apple’s VPN on Demand, iMessage and FaceTime. Apple was ordered to pay $625.6 million in damages and ongoing royalties. Following the verdict, Apple filed a motion for ...
BTLJ Blog
October 28th, 2013
Patent trolls have been in the spotlight of national attention in the past year, as President Obama addressed the problem in his Fireside Hangout and a White House report attempted to quantify the impact of abusive litigation. Officially known as Patent Assertion Entities, or PAEs, these companies purchase patents and bring patent infringement claims as a ...
BTLJ Blog
May 14th, 2013
With spring in the air, it is time to take another look at current news in the world of patent troll litigation. By now full-fledged media darlings, patent infringement lawsuits filed by non-practicing entities are everywhere you turn, garnering not just upvotes on Hackernews, retweets on Twitter, but time in the halls ...
BTLJ Blog
October 15th, 2011
On September 16th, 2011, President Obama signed the (Leahy-Smith) America Invents Act. The official White House Press Release and countless blogs describe the Act as “the most significant reform of the Patent Act since 1952.” One of the stated objectives of the Act is to let American companies and inventors ...