Tag: patent reform
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...
18 States Now Have Laws to Try to Stop Patent Trolls
As of two days ago, Illinois became the 18th state with a law prohibiting bad faith assertions of patent infringement. (That is, fraudulent demand letters.) It seems that if Congress won't act, the s...
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...
Senator Leahy Takes Patent Reform Off The Agenda
Well, you’ve probably heard the news: Senator Leahy announced that patent reform is off the agenda for the Judiciary Committee this month. This is the most aggravating part of Senator Leahy’s stat...
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...