Tag: patent reform
IPR Successes: Cleaning Up Messes
APTWater makes water treatment systems that clean up polluted groundwater and wastewater. You’ve probably never heard of APTWater. I hadn’t, nor had a friend who lives near their headquarters ...
All My Excess (Venue) Leaving Texas
Yesterday afternoon, the Federal Circuit overturned the Eastern District of Texas’s test for venue. Even after TC Heartland, patent trolls were trying to keep defendants in the Eastern District of...
IPR Successes: Trolls and Tolls
September marks the five-year anniversary of inter partes review (IPR), and Patent Progress is highlighting how successful the system has been at achieving its stated goals of increasing patent quali...
Inter Partes Review: Five Years, Over $2 Billion Saved
This Saturday, September 15, 2017, marks the five-year anniversary of the first filing of an inter partes review. We’ve seen nearly 7,000 post-grant reviews filed since then, a Supreme Court case ...
It’s The Claim Language—Except When It Isn’t
Last week, the Federal Circuit handed down a decision in Visual Memory v. NVIDIA, deciding that the Visual Memory[1. Unsurprisingly, Visual Memory is an NPE that did not itself come up with this pate...
The PTO’s § 101 Summary Report
One of the most important developments over the past few years is the Supreme Court’s decision in Alice v. CLS Bank - a decision that articulated a distinction between patent-eligible inventions, an...
Understanding The Questions Asked At The “Bad Patents” Hearing
The recent House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on the Impact of Bad Patents on American Businesses addressed many of the points I made last week. But it also highlighted a few issues where there’...
Comments to the USPTO on AIA Trial Procedures
On July 6, the Computer and Communications Industry Association submitted comments on America Invents Act (AIA) trial procedures in response to the PTO’s ongoing request for such feedback, most rece...
Bad Patents, Bad Results
Tomorrow morning, the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet is holding a hearing on “The Impact of Bad Patents on American Businesses.”
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