GLG News by Hardware / Computer Patent Experts: Lawyers

The market applauded this week when TSRA announced a patent settlement with one of the many firms that stand accused of infringing Tessera's beseiged patent portfolio.  But no one ought count their chickens yet.  The path toward championing TSRA's patent portfolio is path that favors...

The on-going wheel-bonusing litigation between Bally and IGT will come to a head this November; and, thanks to a recent ruling by the judge, the same jury will hear not only the patent issues but also BYI's antitrust allegations.

Commentators continue to predict that settlement is around the corner for NOK and QCOM; but the reality of the Delaware case is that it is just another bend in the road, rather than being any serious settlement opportunity.

As much as everyone yearns for closure, the reality of the QCOM/NOK fight is that we still have years on the clock.

Tessera continues to focus public attention on its arbitration with Amkor.  But the real action these next few months will not come from that corner.  Instead, the real action is going to be the looming final decision about TSRA's '419 patent.

Rambus has scored two big legal victories over the last few weeks.  Now, all eyes turn to the summer, where three more big legal events could determine the firm's fate.

The litigation between Bally and IGT is nearing its conclusion, with all three pending cases now set for trial sometime between October 2008 and February 2009.  The likelihood that any of those juries actually sit, however, is small.  The way the cases have played out, there is tremendous...

Tessera's stock has been thoroughly trashed the last five weeks, in large part because the investment community saw one of TSRA's ITC cases temporarily derailed.  The next few days should bring a reprieve with respect to the ITC; but the real action is happening elsewhere in Washington: in publicly...

There was little reaction to the news last week that the Federal Circuit would not stay the pending BRCM injunction against QCOM.  But make no mistake: the BRCM fight is going poorly for QCOM, and there will be enormous pressure on QCOM to cut a deal later this year.

Microsoft's recent settlement of its patent dispute with Visto obviously had implications for those two firms; but the settlement also hurt RIMM in its attempt to make Visto cut a deal.