Tag: patentable subject matter
Congress Wants to Revive Patents but May Strangle Innovation and Damage Health Care Access Instead
This post, written by Wayne Brough, initially appeared in the R Street’s Real Solutions Blog.
Patent eligibility, or the fundamental question of what is patentable, is currently under congression...
Tackling Patent Trolls In Foxboro
A new lawsuit in Massachusetts proves that even NFL teams are not safe from baseless accusations from patent trolls. While the New England Patriots are usually concerned with defending their home turf...
Patent Eligibility Limits are Vital to Innovation, Prosperity, and Public Health
A few weeks ago, several public interest organizations including the Public Interest Patent Law Institute (PIPLI), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Gene...
A Different Bite At The Subject Matter Apple
Utility patents aren’t the only form of patent, much less the only form of intellectual property. While not a frequent subject of discussion in comparison to its much better known cousins, the...
What Are We Really Talking About When We Talk About § 101?
After the Senate’s recent § 101 hearings, Senators Tillis and Coons seem to have remained steadfast in their belief that patentable subject matter is a real problem for U.S. innovation. (It�...
Senate Judiciary § 101 Hearings Less Neutral, Helpful Than They May Appear
This week marks the start of three separate hearings on a draft § 101 bill introduced by Senators Tillis (R-NC) and Coons (D-DE). The draft bill—analyzed last week by Patent Progress—is fun...
Sunshine: Eclipse Promises Not To Sue Californians
Remember Shipping and Transit? The notorious NPE went bankrupt last year after its campaign against everyone from transit app developers to city transit authorities hit a few potholes. Fol...
Senators Tillis and Coons Draft Fundamentally Flawed § 101 Legislation
Today, staff from Senators Tillis and Coons will sit in a room with a group of stakeholders—primarily patent lawyers and lawyers from the pharmaceutical industry—and discuss their recently release...
Jefferson on Abstract Ideas
I occasionally [1][2][3] dig into the available Founding-era record to see what we might be able to glean from the Founders’ words with relevance to modern debates on patent law and policy. With t...