There's no doubt that SanDisk's aggressive policing of its patent rights has been a boon to the company's revenue. But four defendants chose to fight the flash storage card supplier at the ITC--and won.

Patent reform was supposed to make patent litigation less common, and less costly. But it could wind up costing Versata Software a whopping $391 million, if SAP and its lawyers at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner get their way.

After decades of legal battles, C.R. Bard is finally poised to collect a huge chunk of change from rival W.L. Gore & Associates in their patent fight over artificial blood vessels.

Judge Pauline Newman tore into her Federal Circuit colleagues Thursday for affirming a PTO determination that a patent was invalid, accusing the two-judge majority of ignoring the appellate court's prior decision that the very same patent passed muster.