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Maxim Integrated Products v. The World

In the second half of 2011, the semiconductor company Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. (MIP) sent letters to multiple companies asserting infringement on four of MIP’s mobile application patents. In 2012, MIP started filing lawsuits against many of those companies. Meanwhile, other proactive entities are filing invalidation suits against MIP. This tangled mess has quickly become a Gordian knot in need of cutting, and the corporations attempting to invalidate MIP’s patents have started doing so.

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A Wild Groupon Appears: Intellectual Property Analysis of Mobile Commerce Framework v Groupon

Every so often, an unsuspecting company becomes ensnared in the patent world, sometimes unwittingly. Like a saber tooth tiger blissfully wandering into the La Brea tar pits, its inaugural foray into this ferocious world can lead to becoming lunch or, in some cases, infect them to become perpetrators downstream. Fresh from Groupon’s IPO, the fangs are coming out… and there’s more fangs than mouths – but we’ll get to that a bit later on.

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