Bankruptcy courts (and lawyers) continue to mystify by their inability to tell the difference between types of intellectual property, confusing patents, copyrights and trademarks as if they are all just variations on the same theme. In the Virgin Offshore ... Read full article
Two Seattle bankruptcy lawyers, Marc Barreca of K&LGates and John Knapp of Cairncross & Hemplemann , recently teamed up to author a useful article on the ... Read full article
On Sunday, chip maker Spansion, Inc. filed a chapter 11 petition in the District of Delaware, case number 09-10690. I haven't heard of them, but this is a big one - more than a billion in assets. Spansion is the world's largest manufacturer of ... Read full article
IT outsourcing and datacenter firm, Incentra Solutions, Inc. , filed a Chapter 11 petition in Delaware yesterday. The lead case is named In re Managed Storage International, Inc., case no. 09-10368. ... Read full article
Mobile virtual network operator Azteca Mobile filed a Chapter 7 petition in Kansas City at the beginning of the month. Azteca sold prepaid phone cards for the Sprint Nextel network, and focused on the US to Mexico market. ... Read full article
According to the Yrsys Technology Blog , Qimonda , a chipmaker based in Germany who had a 10% share of the DRAM (those things in your computer that remember everything) market in Q3 2008 became the first major memory chip maker to file for bankruptcy ... Read full article
Neonode, Inc.'s Swedish subsidiary, Neonode AB, filed a petition for bankruptcy in compliance with the Swedish Bankruptcy Act (1987:672) December 9, 2008. Neonode is a cell phone manufacturer, with patented touch screen technology according to this ... Read full article
According to the Associated Press , the company that previously purchased the domain name "sex.com" for an estimated $14 million in 2006, has been placed into an involuntary bankruptcy on the eve of a scheduled foreclosure sale of the domain ... Read full article
FierceWireless reports: "Nortel Networks, despite having $2.6 billion in cash, is contemplating bankruptcy because of uncertainty about some of its long-term financial problems as well the future market for its voice-only wireless equipment, which has ... Read full article
Anyone who has worked on patent prosecutions knows how the work generally gets done and billed. First, you hire a trusted U.S. firm to handle the overall prosecution effort. Then, that firm lines up the various other firms it works with to handle ... Read full article
According to the Seattle TechFlash , RPX Corp. is launching a "defensive patent aggregation." This is essentially a capital pool used for purchasing patents from bankrupt companies to keep them out of the hands of patent trolls . Supported by ... Read full article
CIO Magazine recently published an interesting article about the sometimes loose treatment of business and customer data in liquidations. It talks about improper disposition of sensitive customer data and the habit of trustees and liquidators of auctioning ... Read full article
In In re S & B Surgery Center, Inc ., 421 B.R. 546 (Bankr. C.D. Cal. 2009), Judge Samuel L. Bufford addressed the question of whether a creditors' committee MUST maintain an information website in order to comply with bankruptcy code section ... Read full article
About February 20, 2009, Qimonda Richmond, LLC, and its parent, Qimonda North America Corp., filed chapter 11 petitions in Delaware. The docket number is 09-10589. I wrote about Qimonda previously . ... Read full article
Yesterday, I received the following e-mail from John Lynn, the president of a patent incubator of sorts called Discovery Alliance : ... Read full article
About a month ago the U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari in the NCP Marketing Case. A link to the denial is here . ... Read full article
In October I reported on a rather unusual decision by a Kentucky Judge holding that domain names were "gambling devices" under Kentucky law. In the case, Kentucky v. 141 Internet Domain Names , Judge Wingate considered a request by the ... Read full article
Every now and then I'm reminded that the SCO bankruptcy remains pending. You might recall SCO as the company that sued Novell and a number of other companies claiming that it owned copyrights to code found in the LINUX open source operating system. ... Read full article
Cable giant Charter Communications , Inc. filed a chapter 11 petition on Friday in the Southern District of New York. ... Read full article
As predicted back in December , Midway Games, Inc. filed its Chapter 11 petition on February 12, 2009, in Delaware. The case number is 09-10465. A maker of computer games available through retail outlets and on-line, Midway Games claims in its press ... Read full article
