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Patent Reform Moves Forward With New Goodlatte Discussion Draft
On Monday, Rep. Goodlatte (R-VA) released a new discussion draft of a patent reform bill. We’ve been looking through it, and overall this is a strong draft.
The draft has litigation reforms that inc...
CCIA Asks Supreme Court to Help #FixPatents in WildTangent Case
Today, CCIA filed an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to grant cert in the WildTangent case. This case could help fix patents and clarify some of the confusion that has come out of recent decis...
Concern Trolls Send Letter to Congress Opposing CBM Expansion
As I’ve written before, the Business Software Alliance (BSA) and its fellow "concern trolls" have continually opposed the expansion of the covered business method ("CBM") review program from only fi...
Senate Judiciary Committee Leadership Calls For Patent Reform in Politico
Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) of the Senate Judiciary Committee have a new op-ed in Politico about the abuses of our patent system, and their intent to fix it. They explai...
Have Patent Trolls Overplayed Their Hand?
Jim Bessen has a nice op-ed in Ars Technica arguing that patent trolls have doomed themselves by going after small businesses.
Roundup of This Week’s Patent News: September 6 Edition
Happy Friday!
This week brought new studies on patent trolls. One study, by PatentFreedom, brought even more proof that expanding Covered Business Method (CBM) review is essential to help #fixpatent...
Wherein I Join the Ranks of Inventors
Well, it’s happened. A patent that I co-invented has issued.
Of course, I don’t own it, because it was based on my work as a software engineer at IBM. But I do take some pride; the invention came ...
New Study by PatentFreedom Shows We Need Expanded CBM Review
If there were ever any doubt that expanding the Covered Business Method review program would have a major impact on the patent troll problem, a newly released study from PatentFreedom should put those...
Roundup of This Week’s Patent News: August 30 Edition
And we’re back! Our posting volume dropped in August, but the Patent Progress blog is back in action.
August hasn’t been very busy with developments on patent reform, due to Congress not being i...