PatentFreedom is an on-line community of companies that access and share information about
non-practicing entities that own and enforce
patent
A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention."A p ...
s primarily to collect
license fees. The company offers membership to operating companies as well as law firms representing them. The company was founded in May 2008.
Patent Freedom was acquired by
RPX Corporation
RPX Corporation (Rational Patent EXchange) is an American provider of international risk management services for patents. The company was founded in March 2008, and is based in San Francisco. It was incorporated on July 15, 2008. By acquiring pat ...
in June 2014.
Products and Services
PatentFreedom is a membership organization where members pay annual subscription fee to gain access to extensive information on non-practicing entities. Existing members can also contribute to the information about who are asserting patents. PatentFreedom subscriptions are offered to both companies and law firms. The information includes who the entities are, who is funding them, and who they have asserted their patents against.
The company has electronic dossiers on 680 entities, 2100 subsidiaries, holding more than 50,000 United States patents and applications, and involved in 8,900 litigations against 25,000 company counterparties.
PatentFreedom also provides advisory, risk mitigation and custom research services.
The company was founded in 2008, with 12 companies joining at inception.
Executive Team
Dan McCurdy is the co-founder and chairman of PatentFreedom, and the CEO of
Allied Security Trust
Allied Security Trust (AST) is an independent, not-for-profit cooperative that provides its members with a method of mitigating the risk of patent assertions and litigation.
Business
Each member contribute to the operating expense of the trust, an ...
. Chris Reohr is the co-founder and president of PatentFreedom.
See also
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Coalition for Patent Fairness The Coalition for Patent Fairness (CPF) is an ad hoc organization of companies who are lobbying for reforms to the US patent system. In general, they believe that the United States Patent and Trademark Office is too prone to grant overly broad pate ...
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Nathan Myhrvold
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Patent Troll Tracker
References
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External links
PatentFreedom home page
Patent law, Troll, patent
Patent law organizations