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Investors in IDCC have long worried that, even if the firm has good patents, it will be years until Nokia and Samsung pay their first penny.  That is why this week's news about intense settlement negotiations caused a stock spike.  But it is also why InterDigital has to be cautious when it...

Bad news out of the Patent Office combined with a disappointing ruling at the ITC to fully clubber Tessera's stock over the last two days.  Scratch the surface, however, and the loss is nowhere near as significant as some seem to believe.

Last year, BRCM convinced the ITC to issue an exclusion order barring the importation of certain power-saving technologies that were then in common use.  QCOM responded by developing a "work-around" that supposedly could be imported because its underlying technology was sufficiently different from...

After weeks of delay, QCOM and NOK finally agreed today on the details of what will be covered in the Delaware litigation.  There were few surprises.  The CDMA arbitration is now officially history.  The patent "stand down" is in effect.  But the most important thing to recognize...

Tessera begins a big hearing this week at the ITC.  But the firm's more interesting legal fight is playing at the Patent Office, where several reexamination proceedings are underway, and questioning the validity of some of the firm's most important patents.

Limelight and Akamai are ready to face off next week in front of a jury.  At issue?  Akamai's long-standing claim that Limelight's basic architecture violates one of Akamai's main patents.

Recent news in both the BRCM and NOK fights confirm what many of us have been saying for a while now: these litigations are nowhere near over, and QCOM has a long road to travel before it will finally clear these issues and emerge with a (very) healthy forward-looking business.

The Washington Post recently reported that the Recording Industry of America (RIAA) was suing an Arizona man for copying onto his computer music that he had legally purchased in physical form.  The story turned out to be false; RIAA was not suing on such a theory.  But the mistake was picked...

Almost everyone seems to expect that Tivo will (any day now) win its patent appeal against Echostar, and with that I also agree.  But what about damages?  Even though the jury awarded only roughly $74M, I think the appeals process will end with a much bigger pricetag.  Indeed, I'm expecting...

This week, Rambus begins a jury trial that could significantly affect the firm's future.  At issue, the JEDEC controversy: namely, the question of whether Rambus behaved legally when it involved itself with the JEDEC standard-setting process but failed to disclose that it was at the same time working...