Tag: patent troll
Intellectual Ventures’ Technology Speculation Is Not A Justification for Shell Companies
During last week’s Department of Justice/Federal Trade Commission workshop on Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs), one of the panelists was Peter Detkin. Detkin is a founder of Intellectual Ventures,...
Yesterday’s FTC-DOJ Workshop on Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs)
Yesterday, the FTC and DOJ held a workshop on the anticompetitive effects of Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs), as Josh had posted about last week. They put together a great collection of participant...
Previewing Monday’s DOJ/FTC Workshop on Patent Trolls and Antitrust
On Monday, Patent Progress will be out in full force at the joint public workshop on patent assertion entity (PAE) behavior organized by the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) ...
Helping Startups Help Themselves: Why the SHIELD Act is TRIPS Compliant
(Cross-posted on Disruptive Competition Project (DisCo))
As I have discussed before, patent trolls pose a unique threat to technology startup companies. The limited resources and small launch win...
USPTO Should Be Applauded for Notice on Patent Transparency
In a round of good news, the USPTO has published a notice that it will be holding a roundtable on January 11, 2013 to look into regulations to “require greater public transparency concerning the own...
Life after David Kappos: What should President Obama look for in the next head of the US Patent and Trademark Office?
Numerous outlets reported Monday that the current head of the Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), David Kappos, would be stepping down. While we have disagreed with Kappos at Patent Progress, espec...
Reflections on Patent Prom and the Silicon Valley-DC Divide
I just returned from five days in Silicon Valley to my Washington, DC home. For years, I have been one of the many people who have sat at the intersection of the Silicon Valley-DC gap on key policy ...
FTC and DOJ Looking at Trolls under Antitrust Authority
A Sunday article in the Wall Street Journal reports the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice (DOJ) are devoting “huge energy, particularly at a senior level” to assess the impa...
Patent Troll Business Models
How Non-Practicing Entities are Adapting
The idea of a patent assertion entity (PAE) (or non-practicing entity, patent troll) has become fairly well-known. These firms adopt a business model of mon...