The phrase "assert patent" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal or technical contexts when discussing the act of claiming or stating ownership of a patent.
Example: "The company decided to assert patent rights against any competitor that infringed on their technology."
Alternatives: "claim patent" or "enforce patent rights".
Both companies also extended their advertising relationship and agreed not to assert patent rights against each other.
The provision limiting the company's ability to assert patent claims against Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard stateffectivelyively takes away H.P.'s property without paying for it".
TiVo's push to assert patent rights across a whole swath of the cable industry will be difficult, but the potential rewards are significant.
"Their business model is to buy a patent and then try and monetise that through license fees, and of course if people won't sign licenses then they will assert patent," says James Marshall, a partner at international technology law firm Taylor Wessing.
Patent trolls — companies that assert patents as a business model instead of creating products — have been in the news lately.
The company also argued that Rovi's actions all assert patents that it has not infringed.
We find that likely targets of "patent trolls"— entities that own and assert patented inventions but do not otherwise use them saw their company valuations increase the most due to TC Heartland.
And the U.S. Supreme Court has in recent years been handing down rulings generally seen to be helpful to defendants in patent infringement cases, in one notable case severely limiting the ability of outfits that do not conduct actual business operations to assert patents in court.
They can assert patents without fear or inhibition, a very attractive use that increases the value of patents, builds demand for more patents -- in short, creating a bubble for patents that threatens those that produce complex products and services for real markets.
With respect to NPEs, Assistant Attorney General Joseph Wayland remarked "Some have raised concerns about business entities that do not develop patented technologies or incorporate them into their products, but purchase and assert patents, through licensing or litigation, against firms who manufacture products..
For example, with IPR no longer available to challenge an asserted patent, defendants may decide to settle so as to avoid expensive and prolonged litigation.
