Sentence examples for a patent attack from inspiring English sources

Unified Patents is a PAE counter-measure — one might even call it a patent attack dog: It challenges bad patents to get them out of circulation.

After all, if Twitter decided one day it needed to launch a patent attack on an uprising competitor, then it would do so if that's what it had to do.

The 9/11 attacks represented a patent attempt by al-Qaida to goad the United States into open warfare.

Pro Softnet Corporation, the company behind online backup and cloud storage services such as iDrive and iBackup (we've covered their solutions a few times in the past) apparently finds itself facing its "largest patent attack" brought on by a non-practicing entity (or 'NPE', aka a patent troll).

Samsung has secured another front against patent attack by shelling out to renew an IP-licensing deal with Ericsson — settling pending litigation attached to the long-running dispute.

Meanwhile, Motorola spokeswoman Jennifer Erickson said in an email to Bloomberg that Motorola is "vigorously defending [itself] against Microsoft's patent attack business strategy".

Its Galaxy Nexus smartphone is currently under heavy patent attack in the U.S. (by Apple), as is the aforementioned Galaxy Tab 10.1.

Former Apple employees say senior executives made a deliberate decision over the last decade, after Apple was a victim of patent attacks, to use patents as leverage against competitors to the iPhone, the company's biggest source of profits.

For big companies, their accumulated portfolios provided an arsenal against patent attacks, as well as against any startups that might poach on the company's turf.

Facebook had a choice to make: With just 56 patents to its name at the start of 2012 it could pay its way out of Yahoo's infringement lawsuit with gobs of money and remain vulnerable to other patent attacks, or make a long-term investment into an intellectual property portfolio it could protect itself with for years to come.

(Oh, and, in some sense, it makes a licensed webOS more defensible against patent attacks, because of all the major players that had an official hand in its development).