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Patent Troll Debating
Examiners Need the Right Tools to Improve Patent Quality
“Patent quality” is one of those terms that gets thrown around a lot. Everyone, it seems, agrees that the [define term="USPTO"] could do a better job on patent quality. Why is it that poor quality...
There’s No Data to Show That Many Inventors Are Being Ripped Off
The Innovation Alliance (an organization whose members include large [define term="patent trolls"] such as Tessera, InterDigital, and Qualcomm) has been pushing against patent reform in the name of th...
If Everyone’s Doing It, How Can It Be Innovative?
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Dennis Crouch over at Patently-O reports that for Fi...
Patent Quality Matters: Having a Patent Doesn’t Make a Person an Inventor
One recurring theme coming from the anti-patent reform folks has been the idea that we shouldn’t prevent or limit inventors from getting the rewards they deserve. Take this tweet for example:
This i...
Roundup of This Week’s Patent News: September 26, 2014 Edition
The big news this week is the pounding that patent trolls have been taking lately.
You may remember MPHJ, perhaps the most notorious patent troll, which sued the FTC for having the nerve to investiga...
Why We Need Better Patent Quality: There Are a Lot of Invalid Patents Out There
Prof. Michael Risch from Villanova University School of Law recently put out a great study on patent quality and [define term="patent troll"] litigation. Prof. Risch’s study is possibly the most tho...
Update: Judicial Conference Approves Rules Change to Raise Pleading Requirements
The Judicial Conference has voted to approve the rules change I described in my last post.
This is means that, assuming the Supreme Court approves the changes (which it almost certainly will) and Con...
Looks Like the Judicial Conference is Taking Care of a Piece of Patent Reform
In Forbes, Daniel Fisher reported that the Judicial Conference is going to be voting on a small, but critical change to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure shortly. (The Judicial Conference is a conf...