Tag: patent troll
A Patent Troll Explains the Drop in Suits
Many thanks to the Consumer Electronics Association, which gave us permission to use its troll figure.
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...
18 States Now Have Laws to Try to Stop Patent Trolls
As of two days ago, Illinois became the 18th state with a law prohibiting bad faith assertions of patent infringement. (That is, fraudulent demand letters.) It seems that if Congress won't act, the s...
FTC 6(b) Study on Patent Trolls Cleared by OMB, It’s Time to Serve Subpoenas
This past Friday, the FTC received OMB approval to go ahead with the 6(b) study on patent assertion entities. It’s been a long time coming, but the FTC did a thorough job of gathering feedback f...
The License on Transfer Network is a LOT of Good
A coalition of tech companies (Google, Canon, SAP, Newegg, Dropbox and Asana) recently announced a new private initiative to disarm patent trolls: the License on Transfer Network (LOT). This is essen...