Dive Summary:
- Neiman Marcus Group Inc. responded to a request for negotiating a patent license for technology the company was using by asking a court to identify the unnamed inventor and declare that no patents had been infringed.
- Retailers are among those companies most visited by licensing fee seekers regarding use of technologies such as Wi-Fi connections and smartphones.
- As Bloomberg reports, companies such as Cisco Systems Inc., Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are also filing lawsuits to invalidate patents and shield their customers from such fee demands.
From the article:
... “CEOs are having to make a decision between fighting a case they believe is completely illegitimate or paying what amounts to an extortionate demand,” David French, senior vice president for government relations at the National Retail Federation, a Washington-based trade group, said in an interview. ...
