Tag: legislation
There’s No Data to Show That Many Inventors Are Being Ripped Off
The Innovation Alliance (an organization whose members include large [define term="patent trolls"] such as Tessera, InterDigital, and Qualcomm) has been pushing against patent reform in the name of th...
18 States Now Have Laws to Try to Stop Patent Trolls
As of two days ago, Illinois became the 18th state with a law prohibiting bad faith assertions of patent infringement. (That is, fraudulent demand letters.) It seems that if Congress won't act, the s...
Big Week for Patent Reform – Innovation Act Heads to the Floor
It looks like the Innovation Act (which was reported from the House Judiciary Committee a couple of weeks ago) will get a vote on the floor of the House this week.
EFF and a number of other groups (i...
Over 2 dozen organizations from diverse industries support making CBM widely available
Today a group of 26 organizations (including CCIA) sent a letter to the House and Senate Judiciary Committee leadership endorsing legislation to make Covered Business Method review more widely availab...
How Covered Business Method Review Can Help Beat Back the Trolls
The term “Covered Business Method” seems a bit dry, but if you’re interested in making life tougher for patent trolls you’ll get acquainted with it. Last week, I focused on one of the Obama Ad...
Talking Points Mau-Mau: Sununu Objects to Reform on Patent Trolls
Former Sen. John E. Sununu has an op-ed in the Boston Globe today that perfectly encapsulates the talking points of those who oppose efforts to clamp down on patent trolls.
First is the “Patents Are...
Senator Cornyn Introduces Patent Abuse Reduction Act
Today is an exciting day — patent trolls are beginning to get some real attention in Congress. Following Senator Schumer’s introduction of the Patent Quality Improvement Act a couple of weeks ago,...
Patent Progress Interview Series: Julie Samuels, EFF
A few weeks ago we interviewed Julie Samuels, the Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), about software patents and patent trolls. Our conversation...
Patents in the News 2/28
FTC-Google public comments round-up #2: Tech companies have their say
The Essential Patent Blog
February 28, 2013
Yesterday we covered several public comments submitted to the FTC by various professio...