A settlement with a so-called “patent troll” requiring it to repay all money received from organizations in New York should serve as a warning to other companies engaged in similar practices, the ...

Accused Patent Troll Takes Aim at FTC, Settles With N.Y. AG With the regulatory backlash against so-called patent trolls continuing to mount, the patent licensing company MPHJ Technology Investments ...

Patents, especially software patents, have become a major point of contention of late. Patent trolls are on the rise and the US government is, somewhat ambiguously, taking steps to lessen their ...

There are hundreds of so-called “patent trolls,” but MPHJ Technology became one of the most well-known when it sent thousands of letters to small businesses around the country suggesting they should ...

MPHJ, the non-practicing entity that owns the so-called “scan to email” patent, argued in Federal Court yesterday that Vermont consumer protection laws violate its free speech rights MPHJ has been ...

WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – The so-called “scanner troll,” MPHJ Technology Investments LLC, and its law firm have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they used deceptive sales ...

Patent troll MPHJ has settled Federal Trade Commission charges that it used deceptive sales claims and phony legal threats in letters accusing thousands of small businesses of patent infringement The ...

MPHJ Technology Investments quickly became one of the best-known “patent trolls” of all time by sending out thousands of letters to small businesses—16,465 of them, we now know—saying that if the ...

MPHJ Tech. Invs. v. Ricoh Ams. Corp., (Fed. Cir. Feb. 13, 2017) (Before Newman, Lourie, and O’Malley, J.) (Opinion for the court, Newman, J.) (Concurring in part ...

The company that became the poster child for so-called patent trolls and prompted calls for legislation to curb the practice reached an agreement with federal regulators to stop making phony legal ...

WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – The Federal Trade Commission has finalized a settlement with the so-called “scanner troll,” MPHJ Technology Investments LLC, and the company’s law firm over charges that ...