Patent Litigation Lawyer

Power-One sued Artesyn for infringement on a number of Power-One’s patents, generally relating to a power control system using a control and monitoring bus called the “PMBus.”  The case was filed before certain of the patents had issued from the USPTO, and apparently before Artesyn sold any infringing products.  From a quick reading of Power-One’s […]

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Yesterday a jury returned a defense verdict in favor of Microsoft in Judge Clark’s court in Beaumont, Texas.  The Eastern District of Texas Blog reports the jury was only out for a couple of hours before returning the defense verdict.  As reported in my last post, this would put the 2007 winning percentage in the […]

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The anonymous author of the Patent Troll Tracker blog argues venue reform is necessary to curb the practice of “patent trolls,” which he broadly defines as patent owners who do not practice their IP, suing multiple defendants for infringement in the Eastern District of Texas. The post parrots popular arguments the pro-reformers have advanced […]

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