Tag: Alice
Sunshine: Eclipse Promises Not To Sue Californians
Remember Shipping and Transit? The notorious NPE went bankrupt last year after its campaign against everyone from transit app developers to city transit authorities hit a few potholes. Fol...
Blackbird Grounded—For Now
Almost two years ago, I wrote about a new non-practicing entity (NPE)—Blackbird Technologies. It claimed to be helping innovators, but the main innovation it helped promote was its own—havin...
Increase In § 101 Rejections Due Almost Entirely To Rejected Business Methods
Prof. Colleen Chien, along with her student Jiun-Ying Wu, recently published an analysis of the impact of § 101 on patent prosecution. While their analysis clarifies which art units are impacte...
IPR And Alice Appear Responsible For Reduced Patent Litigation Costs
Patent litigation costs have dropped significantly over the past few years, after a steady series of increases over the previous decade. This drop has sometimes been attributed to the use of int...
Yet More Evidence That NPEs Are Harmful To Innovation
Profs. Cohen, Gurun, and Kominers first published a paper collecting evidence of the impacts of NPEs on innovation in 2014. Recently, they updated the paper, incorporating additional evidence and re...
Getting The Future Backwards: Iancu’s Comments On § 101 At IPO
This morning, Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) Director Iancu gave remarks at the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) Annual Meeting. Perhaps unsurprisingly, given IPO’s efforts to leg...
More Evidence Is In—Alice Has Been Good For R&D
Tuesday marked one milestone—utility patent number 10,000,000. But it also marked a far more important milestone—the 4-year anniversary of the Alice decision. Looking back on those 4 y...
A New § 101 Trio Shows That We Don’t Need § 101 Legislation
The Bilski, Alice, Mayo, and Myriad cases are sometimes referred to as a § 101 quartet because they set forth the Supreme Court’s test for patentable subject matter under § 101. Over the past fe...
Innovation Is Alive And Well—R&D
As part of Patent Progress’ series on innovation in the United States, we are examining ways to measure innovation. One useful metric, measuring the investment being made in the creation of ne...