Intellectual Property (IP) lawsuits are big business these days. In fact, some companies and enterprising individuals use these lawsuits to make money—that is, filing lawsuits in order to get a ...

Are big companies patent trolls and small ones not, or vice versa? Should a company's size or pocket-book disqualify it from earning opprobrium as a patent troll? The not-so-secret tactic of companies ...

The key players at porn-trolling firm Prenda Law are pressing forward with their new defamation lawsuit against anonymous online critics. Now they’ve made one of their wildest demands yet: they want ...

Michael G. Craig, Patent Attorney, Intellectual Property Group, Brouse McDowell Smaller businesses often don’t have the wherewithal to enforce their patent rights because pursuing this type of ...

The U.S. Supreme Court may consider corporations to be people, but three federal judges in three states have ruled that an IP address is not a person, throwing into question charges against hundreds ...

Microsoft's conversations with customers have led it to tackle an emerging risk through Azure IP Advantage, but others say the 'umbrella' program may not yet be legal necessity. Based on feedback from ...

Ask not for whom the patent troll sues, he sues you. It used to be patent trolls only bothered to sue large companies. After all, that's where the big bucks were. Now, however, Innovatio IP, a new ...

In the latest episode of IPWatchdog Unleashed, I sat down with my good friends Brad Close, who is the Executive Vice President of Transpacific IP, and Jim Carmichael, a former judge on the Board of ...