GLG News by Hardware / Computer Patent Experts: Lawyers

The Acacia business model is a repulsive one on public policy grounds; and in the coming months patent law is likely to catch up with the firm and further constrain Acacia's growth potential.

Merrill Lynch downgraded its rating on QCOM today, citing yesterday's loss at the ITC as a "major negative" and lamenting that now QCOM is unlikely to be able to settle the broader NOK fight anytime soon.  That analysis is hard to fathom.  Yesterday's news was a setback to be sure, but for...

The Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) overseeing QCOM's GSM case against NOK is scheduled to issue his tentative ruling today.  Here, I run through my current thinking on the matter.

The court in Nevada has issued its Markman order, determining the meaning of the patent at issue in Bally's (BYI) patent lawsuit against IGT.  The result is a mixed one, with BYI prevailing on most claims but receiving an awkward interpretation of claim 19.

The ITC this week declined to puruse a complaint filed by NOK, explaining that an investigation would be inappropriate given the pending QCOM/NOK arbitration.

Silicon Graphics emerged from bankruptcy and quickly launched a patent lawsuit against ATI.  Now, that case has come to a head, with both parties filing motions that could plausibly and decisively end the case prior to the start of an actual jury trial.

The Delaware patent infringement lawsuit brought by IGT against BYI looks like it is shifting away from Delaware and into a Patent Office process known as re-examination.   The result is a high stakes moment where BYI might significantly lessen IGT's threat, but it might fail and thereby strengthen...

The Santa Ana patent dispute has dragged on longer than expected, but the case is now set for its last big step: issuance of an injunction against continued infringement by QCOM.

The ITC recently made a tentative ruling dismissing a NOK patent complaint on the ground that the issues were already intertwined in the QCOM/NOK CDMA arbitration.  That ruling reinforces an important reality of the NOK/QCOM fight: the CDMA arbitration is part of the reason that this fight is dragging...

Litigation underway between Cablevision and the media companies might not look all that important, given that the technology at issue has barely seen the light of day.  But the long-run issue here is the legal status of all sorts of high-tech copying and distribution technologies, and that...