Patent Filings Round-up: IPR on $2.18 Billion VLSI Patent Instituted; IP Edge Filing Patterns Emerge

The post-Christmas filing rush is upon us—a slight dip during the Christmas holiday is normally followed by a end-of-year complaint filing spike, and this year is no different; 72 new filings, most coming just before or after the holiday (with another 50 terminations, as cases settle going into the end of Q4).  There was also a subpar 24 petitions filed (22 IPRs and 2 PGRs).  We are starting to see a trickle of more PGRs, as post-AIA continuation patents issue, currently in litigation, that…