Tag: patent reform
International Trade, Not Interrupted Trade—Trolls and the ITC
You hear a lot about patent litigation in district courts. And, over the past several years, the new inter partes review procedure has seen a lot of attention (including last week’s renewed effort...
STRONGER Patents, WEAKER Innovation
Yesterday, Senator Coons introduced his STRONGER Patents Act. Senator Coons provided a section-by-section description of the bill, as well as the text of the bill. And after reading it, I have som...
The Special Nature Of Venue In Patent Law
TC Heartland continues to impact the world of patent litigation. I haven’t run the numbers yet on what’s happened since the decision came down, but just having read through the list of cases fil...
How TC Heartland May Affect District Court Filings: A Quantitative Assessment
This guest post was authored by Shawn Ambwani and Robert Jain. Shawn Ambwani is the COO and co-founder of Unified Patents. Robert Jain is an attorney at Unified Patents. This post provides a qua...
One Week of TC Heartland
It’s been one week since TC Heartland was decided. I thought I’d take a preliminary look at how the decision has changed case filing strategies. In order to do so, I looked at at how many new ...
Are Copyright and Patent Overlapping or Mutually Exclusive in Protecting Software Innovations?
“Neither the Copyright Statute nor any other says that because a thing is patentable it may not be copyrighted. We should not so hold.” So said the Supreme Court in Mazer v. Stein, 347 U.S. 201, 2...
TC Heartland Attacks The Heart Of Patent Forum Shopping
The Supreme Court decided TC Heartland v. Kraft on Monday. The decision addresses a procedural point with huge effects on patent litigation.
The Problem
The basic problem before this case was tha...
AIPLA Signs on to IPO’s Misguided Proposal on § 101
AIPLA, the bar association for intellectual property lawyers, just released their recommendation and report on reforming § 101. § 101 is the portion of the Patent Act that sets out what’s eligib...
Patent Owners Don’t All Hate IPRs
Bloomberg BNA and AIPLA just released a nationwide survey of patent attorneys and agents asking about their experiences with inter partes review at the Patent Trial and Appeals Board. Bloomberg BNA an...