GLG News by Hardware / Computer Patent Experts: Lawyers

Two weeks ago, IGT and BYI were offered the chance to delay their litigaiton over IGT's wheel-based bonus gaming patents and instead embark on a court-facilitated mediation.  This week, the parties passed on that opportunity, thereby moving that much closer to a jury trial this coming October.

With the Nokia fight now resolved, QCOM's primary litigation issues all involve Broadcom.  The most pressing of those is QCOM's pending attempt to reverse its loss last year at the International Trade Commission.  On that, recent events bode well.

There are two big BRCM/QCOM cases rapidly moving toward their final scenes: the ITC case, which I discuss in a previous post; and the Santa Ana patent case, where BRCM asserts three patents.  Earlier this month, the Federal Circuit heard the appeal in the Santa Ana case; and if they heard the issues...

A few years back, RIMM was the poster child for a firm whose procedural decisions cost it a fortune.  Back then, the problem was that RIMM challenged NTP's patents, but did so too late, such that RIMM lost its court case before the Patent Office had enough time to reevaluate and ultimately call...

Earlier this month, Judge Whyte announced that he would hold a hearing in late August to evaluate whether the QUANTA decision out of the Supreme Court has any impact on the pending Hynix remedy.  Hynix's lawyers think it does.  I disagree.

With the '419 patent now back for another few months of patent review, Tessera has a clean shot at two big legal events: resolution of the Amkor arbitration, and an initial decision from the ITC.  The scary part: almost everyone seems to expect that TSRA will win both.

The litigation between Starent and UTStarcom will take an important turn in the next four weeks, as the Court will likely definitively rule on whether UTStarcom's (admittedly vague) allegations suffice to keep the bulk of its trade secret case alive.

The Internet has been abuzz this week with gossip and assertions about the likelihood that Rambus will get an injunction against Hynix.  That analysis misreads the fight.  On the merits of the patent dispute, Rambus will either get its injunction or get significant cash damages; either is...

The investment community has been quietly waiting to see if the Supreme Court would decide the QUANTA case in a way that could disrupt QCOM's licensing practices.  But the decision turns out to be a complete non-event.  As long as QCOM is careful, it can continue to license its patents using...

The last time RIMM faced a serious patent challenge, both the patent  bar and the investment community were sharply focused on the fight and its long-run implications for patent law as well as RIMM itself.  This time, the Visto case looms, but with very little hang-wringing apparent in either...