Congress and Patents
Tuesday Markup of Litigation Funding Legislation
Although John Squires is busy destroying the PTAB—as of last week, he has now gone 0 for 34 on allowing institution of IPR petitions he reviews—the story in Congress is more positive. Tomorrow, t...
Vague Patent Weaponized Against America’s Pastime
Earlier this month, Major League Baseball returned to the courtroom to defend itself against a patent that claims to cover dynamic ticketing technology – though MLB argues it only covers an unpatent...
CCIA Senior Counsel Joshua Landau Testifies Against RESTORE Act
In case you missed it, I testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Intellectual Property this week on the RESTORE Act – legislation that would overturn the unanimous Supreme Co...
The PREVAIL Act Would Perpetuate Unjust Monopolies, Deter Innovation, and Violate the Founders’ Patent Principles
The Federalist Society on its website quotes former President Ronald Reagan as saying “The Federalist Society is … returning the values and concepts of law as our founders understood them to schol...
PERA and PREVAIL Markup Delayed, Again
During a Senate Judiciary Committee executive business meeting on November 14th, cosponsors of two controversial bills – the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA) and the Promoting and Respectin...
PREVAIL Act Is the Latest Attack on the PTAB
Most Patent Progress readers are probably familiar with the PREVAIL Act—legislation that is pending before the Senate Judiciary Committee that would sharply limit access to PTAB review. I recently...
Sen. Coons, RESTORE This Bill to the Shelf
On Tuesday, Sen. Chris Coons introduced the RESTORE Act. This bill tries to overturn the Supreme Court’s eBay v. MercExchange decision. Justice Thomas, writing for a unanimous court in e...
The U.S. Intellectual Property System and the Impact of Litigation Financed by Third-Party Investors and Foreign Entities
On Wednesday, June 12th, Paul Taylor, a Visiting Fellow at the National Security Institute at George Mason University – and previous Patent Progress contributor – testified in front of the House J...
Congress Wants to Revive Patents but May Strangle Innovation and Damage Health Care Access Instead
This post, written by Wayne Brough, initially appeared in the R Street’s Real Solutions Blog.
Patent eligibility, or the fundamental question of what is patentable, is currently under congression...