Tag: competition
Patent Expiration Doesn’t Prevent Green Mountain Coffee From Maintaining Its Buzz
(Cross posted on Project DisCo)
Keurig single-cup brewing systems, conspicuous contraptions found in offices and homes across America, are a convenient product for anyone who wants to make coffee a ...
PAE’s Attempt to Manipulate Antitrust Laws Thwarted (for now?)
In March of last year a noted Patent Assertion Entity (“PAE”), Cascades Computer Innovation, turned the concept of anticompetitive use of patents on its head by filing an antitrust suit against fi...
A History of Abuse
The U.S. patent system is almost as old as our country. The power to create patents was included in the constitution, and the first Patent Act was enacted in 1790. A lot of opponents of patent reform ...
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...
Yesterday’s FTC-DOJ Workshop on Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs)
Yesterday, the FTC and DOJ held a workshop on the anticompetitive effects of Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs), as Josh had posted about last week. They put together a great collection of participant...
Lessons from Apple v. Motorola in Wisconsin
The FTC’s recent consent order in its merger review in In the Matter of Robert Bosch GmbH – a combination of manufacturing companies that make air conditioning recycling, recovery, and recharge p...
Why an Antitrust Lawyer Cares About Patent Reform
Since the advent of antitrust enforcement in the United States through the Sherman Act in 1890, antitrust law and patent law have endured an uneasy relationship. Initial cases treated patents as sup...