Posts Tagged: "F. Scott Kieff"

Scott Kieff: “My biggest take from today’s sessions, was to hear from Don Dunner and Judge Newman and others about that great ideas that we could all share in to bring increased economic growth, increased innovation, increased opportunity for the market, for consumers and for manufacturing by returning to an approach to the IP Antitrust interface that is politically diverse, that both President’s Carter and Reagan embraced. That kind of pivoting could really help the system and it could be done by getting professionals within the community to just talk together in a different way. I know that sounds small because it’s just talking, and talking in a different way. But sometimes those little things can have big payoffs.”

A multitude of changes to patent law and practice have altered the face of patent litigation in America. From patent venue decisions in district courts that seem to be inconsistent with TC Heartland, to Indian Tribes acquiring patents and asserting sovereign immunity, the patent enforcement and defense landscape has changed dramatically over the past few months. Amidst these changing times, please join Gene Quinn for a free webinar webinar discussion – Hot Topics in Patent Litigation – on Thursday, October 12, 2017, at 12pm ET. Gene will be joined by former ITC Commissioner F. Scott Kieff and Keith Grady, Chair of IP and Technology Litigation at Polsinelli.

ITC Commissioner F. Scott Kieff has publicly announced that he will be leaving the International Trade Commission and returning to his academic posts as a Professor at George Washington University Law School and a senior fellow at Standford University’s Hoover Institution. Kieff’s last day at the ITC will be June 30, 2017.

The problem with not having an independent invention defense, according to Lemely, is that people who invent themselves couldn’t possibly find out about what others have invented because these inventions lay in unpublished patent applications at the Patent Office. “You have people who genuinely tried not to infringe,” Lemley said… While Professor Lemley is entitled to his opinion, and he is an excellent and formidable attorney that no one should ever take for granted, he is not entitled to his own facts. Deliberate disdain for patent property is a purposeful business model driving mega-tech IT incumbents. This business model is called “efficient infringement.” Efficient infringement is a cold-hearted business calculation whereby businesses decide it will be cheaper to steal patented technology than to license it and pay a fair royalty to the innovator, which they would do if they were genuinely trying not to infringe as Professor Lemley suggests.