This guide to state patent legislation has been newly updated for 2015!
Read more →This guide lists all of the patent reform legislation pending in the current Congress, including descriptions and links to the text of the bills.
Read more →Patent comic strips for your reading enjoyment!
Read more →Remember when people were saying that patent litigation was dropping and that patent troll problems were all over?
Turns out, not so much.
According to Lex Machina’s data, there were 441 patent litigation filings in December 2014. The previous month, there were 335. That’s an increase of 32%!
It seems that my comic from a few months ago was basically right:
Here’s an old ditty from the Great Depression that sums it up:
Well, it’s a new year, and with patent reform again on the horizon, we’ll be seeing a lot of articles like this one (promoted by this blog post). The article in question claims that there was no big patent holdup in the early aviation industry, that it’s all just a myth put forth by the…
We at Patent Progress wish you a safe and happy New Year! There will be plenty of patent action to come in 2015, so stay tuned…
This has to be one of my favorite stories this year: it seems that patent trolls are the victims of extortion by a new breed of troll (registration required). Here’s the scenario: a patent troll files a suit (or suits) and wins a big judgment. Another company then files an petition with the against the…
Here’s some schadenfreude for your Monday: seems that Peter Detkin is leaving Intellectual Ventures. As I noted about a year ago, IV has been having a tough time, although it’s not clear why Detkin is stepping down. Now I can’t vouch for the following video’s authenticity, but I have heard that this is actual footage…
