Tag: patent reform
Business and Consumer Groups Come Out in Support of Obama’s Patent Proposals
As it was widely reported yesterday, including here on Patent Progress, President Obama came out with a three pronged plan for stamping down on patent trolls. Part one was a study outlining their ha...
Massive Gathering Calls for Solving our Patent Troll Problem
The groundswell of support for solving the problems created by patent assertion entities continues to grow. Today, I had the pleasure of attending a standing-room only gathering of organizations and...
Patent Fixes Pick up Steam in Congress
(Cross post on DisCo)
What a difference a year makes in Congress. Last year, Reps. DeFazio (D-OR) and Chaffetz (R-UT) introduced the Saving High-tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes (SHIELD...
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...
Senator Mike Lee’s Speech at CCIA’s Patent Progress Event Today
Below is the transcript of Senator Mike Lee's speech at our event today, How Patent Trolls Harm Innovation.
I’m grateful for the opportunity to say a few words about patents and innovation. In p...
Five Employees, Six Lawyers: The Problem with Software Patents
It’s the tech startup dream: coming up with a great idea, raising funding to make it a reality, gaining users, hiring a first, second, and third employee. Hiring just as many lawyers.
When a startu...
Patent Trolls Stifle Innovation
Over the last several months, we have been vocal in our calls for software patent reform to put an end to the threat of lawsuits on behalf of patent assertion entities (PAEs), more commonly known as p...
Patent Troll Panel Important for Competition Policy
CCIA is hosting an important event on Thursday, February 28th entitled “How Patent Trolls are Harming Innovation.” The event will take place in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, and will featu...
Entrepreneurs to Congress: Fix the Patent Troll Problem
Today, more than 60 entrepreneurs wrote to Congress demanding Congress do something about the growing threat patent assertion entities are creating for the startup community. Led by Engine Advocacy ...