Patent Litigation
RESTORE Act Leaves District Courts Vulnerable to NPE Abuse
As I discussed in Patent Progress back in July, the RESTORE Act, introduced in July by Senators Chris Coons and Tom Cotton, would bring back automatic injunctions to U.S. district courts. RESTORE is ...
Failed Disclosure Request Shows the Lingering Threat of Undisclosed Litigation Finance
In August, Delaware Chief District Judge Colm Connolly denied Apple’s request for access to details on the litigation funding arrangement between the Finnish company MPH Technologies, which is suing...
Patent Dispute Report: 2024 Mid-Year Report
This post initially appeared on Unified Patents’ News and Views Blog. More analysis is available here.
Patent litigation in the United States showed an upward trend in the first half of 2024, w...
Congress Refocuses on Third-Party Litigation Funding Transparency
Although some Congressmen are trying to resurrect bad ideas, other Congressional leaders are once again focused on taking action to address third-party litigation funding, a rapidly-growing industry w...
New Case-Assignment Order Marks Next Step in Curbing Judge Shopping in Texas
Late last month, Chief U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Texas Alia Moses announced a new order to distribute patent cases randomly across the district, while raising the bar for plainti...
The U.S. Intellectual Property System and the Impact of Litigation Financed by Third-Party Investors and Foreign Entities
On Wednesday, June 12th, Paul Taylor, a Visiting Fellow at the National Security Institute at George Mason University – and previous Patent Progress contributor – testified in front of the House J...
States Join Together to Defend Against NPEs
In 2013, Vermont became the first state to pass an “anti-patent troll” law. Since then, more than 30 states have passed similar laws to rein in patent trolls. These efforts, which range from allow...
The Ripple Effects of Patent Venue
A recent article described the outsized roles that two modest cities in Texas play in U.S. patent litigation, but there's more to the story of America’s odd patent venue rules. The article alludes t...
Another startup bites the dust, courtesy of patent trolls
A handful of interest groups like to claim that patent trolls are a myth—that they're a straw man used to shape IP policy in ways that are harmful to patent holders. Mycroft AI is one of many startu...