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Welcome to the New Patent Progress
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18 States Now Have Laws to Try to Stop Patent Trolls
As of two days ago, Illinois became the 18th state with a law prohibiting bad faith assertions of patent infringement. (That is, fraudulent demand letters.) It seems that if Congress won't act, the s...
FTC 6(b) Study on Patent Trolls Cleared by OMB, It’s Time to Serve Subpoenas
This past Friday, the FTC received OMB approval to go ahead with the 6(b) study on patent assertion entities. It’s been a long time coming, but the FTC did a thorough job of gathering feedback f...
The PTO’s Culture of Poor Quality Patents
There have been a few scandals at the USPTO in recent weeks. First was a report of nepotism in hiring on the trademark side of the PTO. Then, there were reports that some paralegals working for the Pa...
Merkley and Four Other Senators Call for PTO to Improve Patent Quality
Well, this is good to see: Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), joined by Senator Mark Begich (D-AK), Senator Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Senator Tom Udall (D-NM) and Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), sent a letter ye...
Apple and Samsung Begin to Wind Down the Smartphone Wars
As we’ve written a number of times (e.g., here, here, and here), nothing good has come out of the war between Apple and Samsung. Both companies have spent millions and neither has much to show fo...
CCIA Sends Letter to Secretary of Commerce and Deputy PTO Director on Patent Quality
Yesterday, CCIA sent this letter to Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker and Deputy Director of the USPTO Michelle Lee:
The License on Transfer Network is a LOT of Good
A coalition of tech companies (Google, Canon, SAP, Newegg, Dropbox and Asana) recently announced a new private initiative to disarm patent trolls: the License on Transfer Network (LOT). This is essen...
MIT Professor Finds That, Yes, There Is a Patent Troll Problem
Patent reform may have stalled in the Senate, but the damage from patent trolls only continues to grow. A few weeks ago, Lex Machina released a report showing that patent assertion entity litigation...