It was a relatively average week for patent filings in the district court with 59 new complaints, while It was a somewhat below average week at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) with 14 new petitions filed thirteen of which were IPRs and one post grant review (PGR).
Kelly Hughes is Senior Patent Counsel at Unified Patents, LLC where she handles PTAB filings including inter partes reviews and ex parte reexamination. Prior to Unified Kelly was a litigator with Erise IP where she focused on patent litigation, particularly in the fields of software and electronics. Kelly earned her J.D. at University of Colorado. In her free time she…
The majority of high-tech patent lawsuits are brought by patent trolls companies that exist not to provide products or services, but primarily have a business using patents to threaten others’ work. Some politicians are proposing to make that bad situation worse. Rather than taking the problem of.
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