The U.S. Congress should take action to slow a skyrocketing number of “deceptive” patent- infringement demand letters sent from patent-licensing firms to small businesses, witnesses told a Senate ...

Earlier this month, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) settled a hotly disputed fight with MPHJ Technology – a patent assertion entity (PAE), known colloquially as a patent “troll.”The commission did ...

Patent demand letter legislation that a U.S. House of Representatives panel is set to consider is getting the attention of technology industry groups hoping the bill can curb at least some patent ...

Patent licensing company Conversant Intellectual Property Management today launched an educational campaign against the use of extortionist demand letters that are victimizing thousands of small and ...

Clarifying ten-year-old precedent on personal jurisdiction in patent declaratory judgment actions, the Federal Circuit recently held in Jack Henry & Associates, Inc. v. Plano Encryption Technologies ...