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This is a quick follow up on Monday’s post about the Customs and Border Protection Service and its role in enforcing patent infringement decisions from the International Trade Commission. Depending ...

As Josh wrote about a while back, a wide variety of organizations have been meeting about patent troll reform. CCIA, along with 49 other groups representing industries as diverse as banking, retail, a...

There’s another front in the Smartphone Patent Wars that you may not have heard of, or may not know much about: a battle with U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP) over whether Motorola can imp...

The momentum for dealing with patent trolls in Congress is nothing short of amazing. Yesterday afternoon, Reps. Blake Farenthold (R-TX) and Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) introduced a bipartisan bill in the ...

In this post, I want to address the notion that the secondary market for patents is too valuable to risk regulating. Patent trolls and their defenders often argue that a “vibrant” secondary market...

We told you in a recent Weekly Patent Roundup about a change in the International Trade Commission's rules. The ITC is now going to require companies to prove early in the case that they have a signif...

From all of us here at Patent Progress, we wish you a safe and happy 4th of July! We'll see you all next week.

Today, we’ll take a short break from talking about patent trolls, and revisit another ongoing story in the patent world: the SmartPhone Patent Wars. Here’s a short video introduction (looks best i...

Another day and another volley fired against patent assertion entities (PAEs). Today, it’s the FTC joining the fray. At an event co-sponsored by CCIA, FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez announced that she...