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Over 2 dozen organizations from diverse industries support making CBM widely available
Today a group of 26 organizations (including CCIA) sent a letter to the House and Senate Judiciary Committee leadership endorsing legislation to make Covered Business Method review more widely availab...
Roundup of This Week’s Patent News: October 25 Edition
Big news this week! On Wednesday, Rep. Goodlatte, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, introduced the Innovation Act, along with ten other Representatives. This bill addresses a lot of the n...
Jorge Contreras on Patent Pledges Outside Standards-Setting Organizations
Jorge Contreras is a professor at the Washington College of Law at American University and a contributor at Patent Progress. He also happens to be one of the world’s foremost legal authorities on...
New Fed. Cir. Opinion Demonstrates That Patent Law Is Confusing
Part of the reason that patent trolls have so much success targeting small businesses is that patent law is arcane and filled with traps for the uninitiated. Obviously, patents themselves are hard to ...
Roundup of This Week’s Patent News: October 4 Edition
As even our non-U.S. readers must know, the U.S. government is currently in a partial shutdown. On the first day of the shutdown, Matt Levy explained what it means for patents, from the PTO to the I...
Patent Trolls Offend Both Ends of the Political Spectrum
The Progressive Policy Institute is out with a policy brief entitled, “Stumping Patent Trolls On The Bridge To Innovation.” The brief “discusses the rich history of progressives in leading effor...
What Does the Shutdown Mean for Patents?
Today, the news is being dominated by the partial shutdown of the U.S. government. Because we focus on patents, we wanted to let readers know what’s happening to the patent world during the shutdown...
Time To Put A Spotlight On Patent Trolls
One of the key authors of the FTC Act, Louis Brandeis, wrote a century ago: “sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.” There are probably fe...
Roundup of This Week’s Patent News: September 27 Edition
This week Rep. Goodlatte released a discussion draft of patent legislation, which has a lot of potential to help #fixpatents. Matt was quoted in The Hill earlier this week on the draft, where he and...