District court and Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) patent filings were steady this past week, with 31 PTAB petitions and 78 new district court complaints. Many of those PTAB filings were part of the Lenovo/Interdigital spat, with the device maker filing challenges. The district court filings were propped up by a significant number of IP Edge suits, as detailed below; and Facebook challenged (so far) four of six patents asserted against them by a streaming media platform company for (effectively) their conferencing software/ability. Read More>>
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