Uneasy Times For Patent Trolls?

There is some evidence to suggest that we have reason to give thanks this season for the downward slide of the phenomenon of the non–practicing entity (NPE) a/k/a patent assertion entity (PAE) a/k/a patent troll. By any name, businesses that acquire patents for the purpose licensing and litigation are in the news, and not for...

Judge Doubles Attorneys’ Fees In Patent Case

We wrote in June about the case of Lumen View Technology v. Findthebest, in which Judge Cote of the Southern District of New York awarded attorneys’ fees to FindtheBest under the new standard announced by the Supreme Court in its 2014 opinions in Octane Fitness and Highmark, after Findthebest successfully proved the invalidity of Lumen...

Alice Strikes Again; Unified Patents Strikes Back

Two newsworthy items hit our radar this week: Judge George H. Wu of the Central District of California has issued another ruling under Alice v. CLS Bank, this time concluding that patent claims to a method for automatically animating lip synchronization and facial expression for animated characters were patent–ineligible. Once again, he made that ruling...