The dramatic rise of patent litigation in China in recent years has created a need for insight into how the system performs—what kinds of cases are brought, how those cases turn out, and the potential risks posed by remedies in those cases.

The third quarter of 2018 saw the resolution of some lingering uncertainties from Q2, as judicial rulings and proposed reforms set the stage for additional changes to the patent ecosystem in the months ahead.

Patent litigation in China has become an unavoidable prospect for many international companies, as a series of systemic reforms—and the temptation of readily available injunctive relief—have helped turn Chinese courts into increasingly attractive forums for patent plaintiffs.

Vindolor was formed in Delaware on January 12, 2017 and was registered to do business in Texas on April 27 of that year.

Express Mobile, Inc. has filed a slew of new cases in its patent litigation campaign, which has been targeting web authoring tools since April 2015.

At the annual RPX client conference in May, a panel of judges urged those in the audience to place more trust in juries to correctly and fairly adjudicate patent disputes.

The patent ecosystem continued to show signs of a shift back in favor of patent owners in the second quarter, as some of the plaintiff-centric trends from Q1 remained at play.

Virentem Ventures LLC (d/b/a Enounce) has filed a lawsuit asserting 11 patents against Alphabet (Google, YouTube) (1:18-cv-00917). The plaintiff characterizes the general subject matter of the underlying technology purportedly covered by the patents-in-suit as "allowing users to select and alter playback speeds while viewing content".

The cases against the other three continue, as do the cases filed in October against AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, SoftBank Group (Sprint), and Verizon.

Upaid Systems, Ltd. (f/k/a InTouch Technologies, Ltd.) has continued to pursue a revived US leg of its international litigation campaign, suing more Laundromats ...

Last year saw a rash of litigation asserting patents passed from Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV) to IQ Holdings, LLC, and a recent assignment suggests that more is on the way.

In April 2017, XR Communications, LLC (d/b/a Vivato) launched a litigation campaign with 11 lawsuits, each asserting the same three wireless communications patents.

The past two weeks have seen a barrage of new complaints filed in the long-running campaign litigated by Realtime Data LLC (RTD) and its subsidiary Realtime Adaptive Streaming LLC (RAS).

Over the past five years, inter partes reviews (IPRs) have caused a dramatic shift in how patent disputes get resolved. Filing IPRs is a common first step for defendants faced with new litigation, allowing them to challenge patent validity early, without months of costly litigation, and thus potentially resolve cases more quickly.

The original patent (6,779,118) issued in August 2004 with estimated priority date in May 1998 based on the filing of a provisional application.