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Tag: Patent Assertion Entity (PAE)

If You Claim That Patent Assertion Entities Are Beneficial, Prove It

I want to follow up on Tuesday’s post. In that post, I quoted from a letter sent by over 50 law professors and economics scholars that said, essentially, that there’s simply no doubt that current ...

The Debate Should Be Over: Patent Litigation Is Back Up

It looks like that dip in patent litigation last year is over: patent lawsuit filings are up, and they’re actually higher than the same periods last year. According to Lex Machina’s data, in Janu...

David Balto on Why the FTC Should Release an Interim Report on Patent Trolls

David Balto (a regular contributor here at Patent Progress) has a great piece at The Hill's website. It's definitely a must read.

FTC Commissioner Brill Says, Don’t Wait to Do Patent Reform

Today, CCIA and AAI co-sponsored a great event at the National Press Club, “Scrutinizing Patent Trolls: What Competition Enforcers Are Doing.” If you missed it, you can watch the webcast. FTC Comm...

Yes, There Is (Still) A Patent Troll Problem

It’s been reported in a few places that a recent Lex Machina report states that patent litigation is down 40% from last year. Of course, the patent trolls are trying to use these inaccurate reports ...

Patent Troll Debating

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...

Roundup of This Week’s Patent News: September 26, 2014 Edition

The big news this week is the pounding that patent trolls have been taking lately. You may remember MPHJ, perhaps the most notorious patent troll, which sued the FTC for having the nerve to investiga...

Why We Need Better Patent Quality: There Are a Lot of Invalid Patents Out There

Prof. Michael Risch from Villanova University School of Law recently put out a great study on patent quality and [define term="patent troll"] litigation. Prof. Risch’s study is possibly the most tho...

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