Tag: patent troll
FTC 6(b) Study on Patent Trolls Cleared by OMB, It’s Time to Serve Subpoenas
This past Friday, the FTC received OMB approval to go ahead with the 6(b) study on patent assertion entities. It’s been a long time coming, but the FTC did a thorough job of gathering feedback f...
The License on Transfer Network is a LOT of Good
A coalition of tech companies (Google, Canon, SAP, Newegg, Dropbox and Asana) recently announced a new private initiative to disarm patent trolls: the License on Transfer Network (LOT). This is essen...
MIT Professor Finds That, Yes, There Is a Patent Troll Problem
Patent reform may have stalled in the Senate, but the damage from patent trolls only continues to grow. A few weeks ago, Lex Machina released a report showing that patent assertion entity litigation...
The Scorpion and the Frog, or, If Intellectual Ventures Is For Something You Should Oppose It
Comprehensive patent reform has stalled in the Senate. You might think that would be enough for the patent trolls.
But no, they’re still trying to kill real patent reform for good. How? By pushing...
Popular Patent Judge Shows Need for Discovery Reform
Lex Machina recently released its 2013 Patent Litigation Year in Review report, and there’s lots of interesting information. I want to focus on one particular data point, because it shows why any pa...
Patent Progress’s Guide to State Patent Reform Legislation
[alert style="info"]Updated 5/15/2014[/alert]
States Acting Against Bad Faith Patent Infringement Assertions
(mouse over the state to see what action its legislature has taken)
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States Really Want Help With Patent Trolls
This past Friday, we launched our Guide to State Patent Reform Legislation. As of this writing, 10 states have passed laws against bad faith assertions of patent infringement, another 4 legislatures ...
Why Patent Trolls Hate Heightened Pleading
There have been plenty of objections (some silly, some not) to patent reform. But the ones that have probably seemed the weakest to me are the objections to raising the standard for pleadings in paten...
The Search for “Balanced” Patent Reform
The universities and the Innovation Alliance, despite being given nearly everything they’ve asked for, are still calling for “balanced” patent reform. They just sent a letter threatening to oppo...