Tag: America Invents Act
IPR Successes: The Next Five Years
Over the past month, I’ve shown just how successful the inter partes review (IPR) program has been in its first five years. IPR has saved billions of dollars and helped everyone from city governme...
IPR Successes: Cleaning Up Messes
APTWater makes water treatment systems that clean up polluted groundwater and wastewater. You’ve probably never heard of APTWater. I hadn’t, nor had a friend who lives near their headquarters ...
IPR Successes: Trolls and Tolls
September marks the five-year anniversary of inter partes review (IPR), and Patent Progress is highlighting how successful the system has been at achieving its stated goals of increasing patent quali...
Multiple Petitions? More Like Multiplicative Claiming And Assertion
One of the criticisms frequently leveled against inter partes reviews (IPRs) is that people file multiple IPRs; they file two, three, four IPR petitions in order to harass a patent owner. Complaints...
SCOTUS Taking Case On Partial Institution Of IPRs
One of the biggest changes coming out of the 2011 America Invents Act (AIA) was the creation of the inter partes review (IPR) procedure, which allows people to challenge the validity of patents after ...
Hiding the Patent Troll Problem with Statistics
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) just released its long-awaited study on the consequences of patent litigation by NPEs, and we’ve been hearing story after story reporting that the report s...
Patent Fixes Pick up Steam in Congress
(Cross post on DisCo)
What a difference a year makes in Congress. Last year, Reps. DeFazio (D-OR) and Chaffetz (R-UT) introduced the Saving High-tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes (SHIELD...
Schumer Proposes Expansion of Covered Business Method Program
Today Senator Schumer announced a proposal to expand the "covered business method" program instituted at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office by the 2011 America Invents Act (AIA). That initiative, ...
Obama Acknowledges Patent Troll Problem [w/ Transcript]
[Cross-posted on DisCo]
It's not often that the President or an Administration talks explicitly about detailed aspects of technology and intellectual property policy. For President Obama, it has ca...