Litigation cases of patent hooligans

In 1995, Pitney Bowes sued HP for infringement on the grounds of the first three of the seven "claims" of a patent filed in 1982. On June 4th, 20001year, both parties reached a settlement and HP paid the plaintiff $400 million. Pitney Bowes continued to use this patent to sue Apple, Panasonic, Samsung and eight other electronics factories.

In 2006, RIM, a Canadian blackberry manufacturer, and NTP, a California patent company, finally reached a settlement, and BlackBerry paid 61250,000 USD.

20 12 September, a technology company named Data Engine Technologies LLC in Texas filed a lawsuit against Apple's Numbers spreadsheet software, infringing its patent and demanding compensation from Apple. This company was not the original owner of the patent, but bought the patent from Borland several years ago.

According to the statistics of patent freedom, the number of patent lawsuits initiated by NPE in the world is increasing every year, from 588 in 2004 to 4602 in 2065, 438+0 1. Apple, Hewlett-Packard, Samsung, AT & amp； Well-known big companies such as T, Dell, Sony and HTC are the most common defendants in NPE litigation offensive. Apple, for example, encountered 44 such lawsuits in just 20 12 a year.