"Apple launched this litigation campaign years ago, with aspirations of slowing the meteoric rise of Android phone manufacturers.
To address this, Article One recently launched a "Litigation Avoidance" service that collects relevant information about prior art, focusing on pre-emptive action around specific patents to help identify and eliminate patents that don't deserve protection.
Under the current law, little-to-no investigation is necessary to launch a patent litigation.
"Burberry vigorously protects its intellectual property rights and, as such, we launched a website litigation program in December of 2010 to combat commercial websites".
The EU currently allows interlocutory injunctions that prevent a generic from launching until the litigation is complete or the parties have settled.
Similar hearings have taken place in New York following the launch of family court litigation in the United States.
"It was a very long history of corporate events and activities and attempts by bondholders to launch an avalanche of litigation," Mr. Crames said.
Although its launch was delayed by litigation, it has since been the subject of recurring controversies and is now legally shielded from performance audits by the state's auditor.
The US brand Coach this week won £160m in damages in a counterfeiting claim, after launching an anti-counterfeiting litigation campaign in 2009 called "Operation Turnlock".
Australia's biggest such fund, IMF, is now eyeing the Netherlands, and Europe's newest, Alter Litigation, was launched in February in France.
