Posts Tagged: anti-patent
A Response to Claims of Patent Propaganda and a Plea for Interpretive Charity in IP Debate
Following a panel I spoke on with my colleagues Charles Duan of the R Street Institute, Abby Rives of Engine, and Ian Wallace from New America, Lydia …
Is the Supreme Court anti-patent?
Is the Supreme Court anti-patent? it has been suggested to me that such rhetoric, whether true or not, is unhelpful and puts those urging pro-patent views on …
Fortune’s misguided screed on patent trolls misrepresents patent owner Blackbird Technologies
Fortune tech writer Jeff John Roberts, who penned this particular article, regurgitates Cloudflare’s claims that Blackbird “may be engaging in illegal fee-splitting arrangements with patent owners” …
Following the money trail from Mapbox to the Kushners and Trump Administration
There are clearly many thousands of companies both large and small with far greater experience and in a far better position to advise Congress on the issue …
Former Trump campaign advisor: “Today, patents are worthless.”
“We began noticing that key appointments in the Trump Administration were going to Republicans who were very anti-patent,” Caputo noted. These appointments include Vishal Amin, who Trump …
The High Tech Inventors Alliance: The newest institution of the efficient infringer lobby in D.C.
Eight tech companies owning a collective 115,000 patents announced the establishment of the High Tech Inventors Alliance (HTIA), an organization they claim is “dedicated to supporting balanced patent …
Governments’ Thumb on the Scales
These government agencies target successful, inventive U.S. firms. They politicize their processes and disregard the exclusivity that rightfully belongs to patent owners. They take away private …
The National Cancer Institute Didn’t Deserve This Treatment From the New York Times
While those in the military are often thanked for their service, let's also thank researchers like Dr. Rosenberg and his colleagues who spend their lives trying to …
Stepping Back from the Cliff: The Year Congress Didn’t Cave to the Anti-Patent Lobby
For a many years, the pied pipers of the anti-patent lobby whistled the patent troll melody and Congress, desperately in need of a glorious bipartisan victory, pushed …
Obama’s Anti-Patent Bias Led to the Destruction of His Legacy
Barack Obama came to office with the suspicion that patents caused higher prices and created market inefficiencies. He set a mission to disassemble the patent system, which …
The patent ‘troll’ fables of the automobile industry
The “troll” narrative of Nakajima and Snow will have us believe that any patent lawsuit to resolve a dispute constitutes abusive litigation. Economic folklore devoid of scale …
Innovation only occurs when entrepreneurs are incentivized to take risks
Believing that innovation does not come from risk taking inventors, entrepreneurs, start ups, or even from the likes of Silicon Valley, is naïve in the extreme. …
Cuozzo, Phony IPR Statistics and the Death of the American Inventor
The battle of Cuozzo, and patent reform in general, is not between the tech industry and the pharmaceutical industry. The battle was started by wealthy multinational tech …
Musk fanboys at Barron’s take dim view of patents at their own readers’ expense
A recent Barron's editorial, however, has raised some eyebrows among those who are familiar with the effect of proper patent enforcement on financial fortunes. Published May 14th, “…
Patent policy is too important for subterfuge and academic folly
As the new academic year starts in earnest we can be sure that the all too familiar attacks on the patent system will reemerge, as they always …
