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Senate Judiciary Committee Leadership Calls For Patent Reform in Politico
Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) of the Senate Judiciary Committee have a new op-ed in Politico about the abuses of our patent system, and their intent to fix it. They explai...
Have Patent Trolls Overplayed Their Hand?
Jim Bessen has a nice op-ed in Ars Technica arguing that patent trolls have doomed themselves by going after small businesses.
Roundup of This Week’s Patent News: September 6 Edition
Happy Friday!
This week brought new studies on patent trolls. One study, by PatentFreedom, brought even more proof that expanding Covered Business Method (CBM) review is essential to help #fixpatent...
Wherein I Join the Ranks of Inventors
Well, it’s happened. A patent that I co-invented has issued.
Of course, I don’t own it, because it was based on my work as a software engineer at IBM. But I do take some pride; the invention came ...
New Study by PatentFreedom Shows We Need Expanded CBM Review
If there were ever any doubt that expanding the Covered Business Method review program would have a major impact on the patent troll problem, a newly released study from PatentFreedom should put those...
Roundup of This Week’s Patent News: August 30 Edition
And we’re back! Our posting volume dropped in August, but the Patent Progress blog is back in action.
August hasn’t been very busy with developments on patent reform, due to Congress not being i...
Hiding the Patent Troll Problem with Statistics
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) just released its long-awaited study on the consequences of patent litigation by NPEs, and we’ve been hearing story after story reporting that the report s...
Roundup of This Week’s Patent News: August 2 Edition
Good morning! Here’s some patent news from this week. On Tuesday, a whole bunch of prominent companies (many in non-tech industries, like retail and food) sent a letter to Congress encouraging t...
Patent Liquidity Is a Solid Mess
Yesterday, I attended a panel sponsored by the American Constitution Society, “Patent Assertion Entities: Helping or Hurting Innovation?” It was a great panel discussion, but, of course, there was...