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Dear Intellectual Ventures, Part 1: Your Patents Are Worth a Lot Because No One Knows What They Mean
Last Friday, Russ Merbeth of Intellectual Ventures responded to my post regarding the effect of patent infringement on patent trolls. I appreciate Mr. Merbeth’s response; it’s to his credit that h...
States Are Getting Desperate to Do Something About Patent Trolls
As we’ve written before, it’s getting bad for small businesses — as David Balto pointed out yesterday, patent trolls are going after supermarkets, hotels, retailers, you name it.
At least one st...
Startup DITTO Selling T-Shirts to Defend Against Patent Suit
EFF recently wrote about a startup called DITTO that sells eyewear online using a technology it developed to let people see how the glasses would look on them using a webcam. DITTO is being sued by 1-...
More on the Effect of Infringing Troll Patents
Tuesday, I posted about the lack of harm to the economy when a PAE’s patent is infringed. University of Pennsylvania Law School Professor Polk Wagner (@PolkWagner) engaged with the post on Twitter:
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The Economy Doesn’t Suffer If a Troll Patent Is Infringed, But an Angel Does Get Its Wings
Last week at a panel discussion, a representative from Intellectual Ventures made a complaint. Why, this person asked, don’t people take into account the negative effect of patent infringement on th...
CLS Bank v. Alice: Don’t Lose Your Head
The patent world was waiting with bated breath for the Federal Circuit’s decision in CLS Bank International v. Alice Corp. At last, we thought, we would have a ruling on when software is patentable ...
Patents Don’t Lead to Innovation, People Do
Yesterday, Mike Masnick pointed out a study that looked at innovations that were given Research & Development’s “R&D 100 Award” from 1977 to 2004. The study found that, within certain gr...
Smartphone War: What Is It Good For?
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has noticed something about the ongoing patent war in the smartphone industry: it’s not accomplishing much of anything.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt took the WSJ to task for mis...
Mueller’s critique against Google off base
Last month, Florian Mueller authored a provocative blog post, criticizing Google for its recent pledge not to assert ten of its patents against any open source project. Mueller has never been a fan ...