The Congress shall have Power … To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries
– U.S. Constitution

Repackaging the Same Flawed Ideas on Patent Quality

This month, the IP Policy Institute at the University of Akron School of Law released a policy brief, “Measuring Patent Quality and Reducing the Backlog at the USPTO,” presenting it as new empirical research. But if the content felt familiar, tha...

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Patent Troll Fumbles Cases Against NFL Teams

Earlier this month, a particularly aggressive non-practicing entity (NPE) – TicketMatrix LLC – quietly dropped a pair of patent infringement lawsuits against two National Football League teams, th...

DOJ Misses the Mark on Injunctions 

On July 11, 2025, the non-practicing entity (NPE) Radian Memory Systems LLC dropped a request for injunctive relief against Samsung after the defendant provided new evidence that undercut the immediat...

Don’t Get it Twisted: New Discretionary Denials Process Hurts American Inventors

Following March’s announcement of a new interim, bifurcated review process for America Invents Act (AIA) petitions, the USPTO Acting Director has given herself largely unchecked authority to discret...

No, IPRs and PGRs Aren’t Interchangeable

In his recent responses to Questions for the Record (QFRs) following his Senate confirmation hearing, USPTO Director-nominee John Squires reaffirmed the value of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTA...
Guest Post

A Solution to the OpenSky Problem

I have written several times about the $2.2 billion verdict in the VLSI v. Intel case.  The case is extraordinary not just because of the size of the verdict, but because Intel was blocked from challenging the patents by the Fintiv policy—and the patents are clearly invalid.   (more…)

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Patent Decisions FromUnited States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Updates

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