Tag: patent reform

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to sit down with Boston University School of Law Professor Michael Meurer (pronounced MOY-er). Mike wrote a paper with fellow BU Law Professor Jim Bessen that es...

A while back I wrote about some amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that the Judicial Conference approved. The most notable change for patent law was that the amendments would get rid o...

Note: This is Part 3 in a three-part series. If you're not comfortable with how inter partes review works, you may want to start with Part 1. If you are comfortable with IPRs, start with Part 2. Gut...

Note: This is Part 2 in a three-part series. If you're not comfortable with how inter partes review works, you may want to start with Part 1. The Complaints About Inter Partes Review (IPR) Some pate...

Note: This is Part 1 in a three-part series. If you're already comfortable with how inter partes review works, you may want to skip to Part 2. If you watched the Senate hearing last week, you heard a...

Universities have been vocal opponents of real patent litigation reform measures. And other reform opponents have swung the squeaky-clean image of the ivory tower like a club. The presidents of Clems...

John Oliver has covered an impressive amount of tech policy issues on his weekly HBO show Last Week Tonight, the National Journal points out, and he continued this last night, discussing patents and p...

We’ve been hearing for months now that the idea that the Innovation Act will devalue patents. But there’s a big problem with this notion that no one seems to be discussing: a lot of companies tha...

We’re hearing a lot of claims about the STRONG Act as an “alternative” to patent litigation reform. The campaign supporting the bill has been misleading at best. There are two pervasive myths ...