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Sen. Coons, RESTORE This Bill to the Shelf
On Tuesday, Sen. Chris Coons introduced the RESTORE Act. This bill tries to overturn the Supreme Court’s eBay v. MercExchange decision. Justice Thomas, writing for a unanimous court in e...
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...
American Technology Manufacturers Renew Fight Against Fintiv
In a renewed effort to challenge the so-called NHK-Fintiv rule, earlier this month Apple, Cisco, Google, and Intel asked the Federal Circuit to strike down the widely-criticized Fintiv doctrine for be...
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...
How the End of Chevron Deference Is (Or Isn’t?) Reshaping IP Regulation
In a decision that reverberated throughout the regulatory world, the Supreme Court ruled on June 28th, in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, that federal courts may no longer defer to an agency’s...
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...