In an effort to draw a line in the sand in the smartphone market, an “innocent bystander” has been caught in the legal crossfire. Following a successful sales ban of the Xbox 360 in Germany, Motorola set its sights on the gaming console’s home turf, and currently, things are not looking good for Microsoft in [...]

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Chetan Tiwari is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and is enrolled in Professor Mgbeoji’s Patents class in Fall 2011. As part of the course requirements, students are asked to write a blog on a topic of their choice. I believe that one quote concisely delineates the behaviour of patent trolling: Amongst a [...]

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Brian Chau is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Brian J. Love, a teaching fellow at Stanford Law School, conducted an empirical analysis of litigation by various classes of patentees in a randomly selected sample of 1,143 patents issued from May 11, 1993 to May 10, 1994. The draft paper, entitled “An Empirical [...]

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Adam Heckman is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School, and is currently enrolled in Professor Mgbeoji’s Patents class, in Fall 2011. As part of the course requirements, students are asked to write a blog on a topic of their choice. Intellectual Ventures (IV), a company that was initially founded on the premise of acting [...]

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