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Event Today Featuring FTC Chair Edith Ramirez
CCIA and The American Antitrust Institute are hosting a panel, Competition Law & Patent Assertion Entities: What Antitrust Enforcers Can Do. This is a big event at the National Press Club today ...
Concern Trolls “Worry” About Covered Business Method Review
As expected, once some ideas to deal with patent trolls were proposed by the President, the concern trolls came out in force to express “concern” about “uncertainty” and a possible, unexplain...
How Covered Business Method Review Can Help Beat Back the Trolls
The term “Covered Business Method” seems a bit dry, but if you’re interested in making life tougher for patent trolls you’ll get acquainted with it. Last week, I focused on one of the Obama Ad...
Talking Points Mau-Mau: Sununu Objects to Reform on Patent Trolls
Former Sen. John E. Sununu has an op-ed in the Boston Globe today that perfectly encapsulates the talking points of those who oppose efforts to clamp down on patent trolls.
First is the “Patents Are...
Why the Obama Administration’s Actions Against Patent Trolls Should Make a Difference
(Cross-posted on DisCo)
This is a very big day: the Obama Administration has just entered the fray to help deal with patent trolls, and it’s taking steps that have the potential to be a major part o...
Dear Intellectual Ventures, Part 3: NPR Showed You’re A Patent Troll, Get Over It
This post is the latest in the Dear Intellectual Ventures series.
This weekend, This American Life aired the follow up to When Patents Attack!
The episode couldn’t be more timely, with patent t...
Vermont Targets A Bottom-Feeding Patent Troll, But It Can’t Do The Job Alone
There should be a rule of thumb for patent trolls: don’t target the disabled. You ignore this rule at your peril. Notorious patent troll MPHJ did, and now it’s just been sued by the Vermont Attorn...
Dear Intellectual Ventures, Part 2: You’re Holding Back Innovation, Not Encouraging It
This is the second post in a series. You can read the first post and the original posts that sparked this discussion (1, 2).
Russ Merbeth of Intellectual Ventures and I are having a discussion about,...
Senator Cornyn Introduces Patent Abuse Reduction Act
Today is an exciting day — patent trolls are beginning to get some real attention in Congress. Following Senator Schumer’s introduction of the Patent Quality Improvement Act a couple of weeks ago,...