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Patent-less Smartphone Innovation and Global Technology Markets
(Cross-posted on Disruptive Competition Project (DisCo))
This weekend I attended the Second Global Congress on IP and the Public Interest held in Rio de Janeiro. The Congress is intended to draw a...
Intellectual Ventures’ Technology Speculation Is Not A Justification for Shell Companies
During last week’s Department of Justice/Federal Trade Commission workshop on Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs), one of the panelists was Peter Detkin. Detkin is a founder of Intellectual Ventures,...
Some Quick Reactions to the PAE Workshop
Market participants, regulators, lawyers, and patent professionals gathered at the FTC yesterday for a very informative Workshop on Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs). We will be posting more this wee...
Yesterday’s FTC-DOJ Workshop on Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs)
Yesterday, the FTC and DOJ held a workshop on the anticompetitive effects of Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs), as Josh had posted about last week. They put together a great collection of participant...
CCIA Filed an Amicus Brief Friday in CLS Bank v. Alice Corp
On Friday, CCIA, which operates Patent Progress, filed an amicus brief in the en banc rehearing of CLS Bank v. Alice Corporation in the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. CCIA’s brief focu...
Summarizing the Amici Briefs in Apple-Motorola before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
On June 22 Judge Richard Posner, sitting in designation, dismissed a patent infringement case between Motorola and Apple which included 15 Apple patents and 6 Motorola patents. Judge Posner explaine...
Previewing Monday’s DOJ/FTC Workshop on Patent Trolls and Antitrust
On Monday, Patent Progress will be out in full force at the joint public workshop on patent assertion entity (PAE) behavior organized by the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) ...
Samsung v. Apple at the ITC – Summarizing the Public Interest Briefs
On November 19 the ITC announced that the full Commission would review the Final Initial Determination in Investigation 337-TA-794, Samsung v. Apple. The ALJ had determined that there was no infring...
Helping Startups Help Themselves: Why the SHIELD Act is TRIPS Compliant
(Cross-posted on Disruptive Competition Project (DisCo))
As I have discussed before, patent trolls pose a unique threat to technology startup companies. The limited resources and small launch win...