Patents in the News 2/26
The CCIA and RIM Tell the FTC Banning Injunctions for FRAND Patents Can Make Smartphone Wars Worse
Groklaw
February 26, 2013
If the government wants to build a highway and your house is in the way of ...
FTC/Motorola Consent Decree Comments
Our friends over at the Essential Patent Blog beat us to it and posted the full list of comments submitted to the FTC on the Motorola Consent Decree. If you want to read through them, here is a link...
Not Just A Big Business Problem: Patent Trolls Harm Startups, Small Businesses
As Patent Progress reported in this post, Friday afternoon President Obama came out strong against patent trolls, saying,
They’re just trying to essentially leverage and hijack somebody else’s id...
Preview of Today’s USPTO Software Patent Roundtable in Palo Alto
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is holding the first of its bicoastal roundtables on software patent quality today at 12 pm EST (9 am PST) in Palo Alto, CA. The second will be ...
Recipient of the First Software Patent Comes Out Criticizing the Current System
In an interesting historical tidbit, last week the Guardian in the United Kingdom published an interview of Martin Goetz. Goetz is the person awarded the first software patent back in 1968. In a p...
Patent Flood Continues
The patent arms race continues to expand. In 2012, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) saw a record 253,155 new patents issued. Not only that, it also just set a record on January 8, 2013...
What Judge Koh’s order in Apple v. Samsung means for the future of injunctions in the smartphone patent wars
In December, Judge Koh denied Apple's permanent injunction demands. The ruling sent Florian Mueller into fits over the state of injunction law in the United States. However, as Dennis Crouch at Pa...
Intellectual Ventures’ Technology Speculation Is Not A Justification for Shell Companies
During last week’s Department of Justice/Federal Trade Commission workshop on Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs), one of the panelists was Peter Detkin. Detkin is a founder of Intellectual Ventures,...
Previewing Monday’s DOJ/FTC Workshop on Patent Trolls and Antitrust
On Monday, Patent Progress will be out in full force at the joint public workshop on patent assertion entity (PAE) behavior organized by the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) ...