Posts Tagged: infringer lobby
Apple Removes ‘Minor Functionality’ from iPhone in Response to Chinese Injunction
On December 10, 2018, a Chinese court granted Qualcomm an injunction against Apple that stops sales and imports of most iPhones in China. On December 12, Apple announced that as …
A Decade Of US Patent Reform Must Be Undone
How ironic is it that the infringer lobby – the very people trying to weaken the patent system and who ignore the patent rights of others through a …
Has Big Tech Finally Become Too Big for the FTC to Ignore?
Some of the questions the FTC is interested in investigating and discussing during this inquiry include whether changes in the economy and evolving businesses have created competition …
Myopia and hubris explain why tech elite lobby for a weakened patent system
The myopia associated with chasing quarterly earnings isn't the only short-sighted predilection giant tech companies display. Affirmatively weakening the patent system in order to avoid upstart competitors …
Senate Republicans discuss patent reform in private briefing with infringer lobby
The Senate Republican High-Tech Task Force convened in order to hear from patent experts on the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in TC Heartland, …
Theftovation: Facebook ‘Likes’ Copying Ideas
The Wall Street Journal explains ithat the Silicon Valley culture has long regarded copying as a good thing and necessary for rapid growth, first to market, first …
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 …
Thomas Massie: America’s Inventor Congressman
“I can tell you, every day Congress is in session there are lobbyists here trying to weaken the patent system,” Massie explained. In Massie’s words, those …
With a Supreme Court hostile to inventors, venture capital and many startups moving to China
Due to the death of the patent troll narrative, venue reform would never have made it through Congress, but the infringer lobby doesn’t need Congress when …
Former Cisco Executive Giancarlo peels back ‘false narrative’ on patent trolls, patent reform
The true agenda of those who support further reform of the U.S. patent system is as follows: to discriminate against entities which license technologies instead of …
Patent troll narrative returns to Capitol Hill as relentless push for patent reform continues
The beauty of the patent troll narrative was it took little time to absorb and instantly painted a pejorative picture in the minds-eye of the listener. It …
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 …
Tea Leaf Readers in Demand as Team Trump Meets with Silicon Valley Giants
Peter Thiel, Reince Priebus and Jared Kushner are hosting technology industry giants for a policy discussion at Trump Tower on December 14, 2016. Patent reform is likely to be …
Patent infringer lobby pushes Trump Transition Team to aggressively pursue patent reform
Several weeks ago Internet Association President Michael Beckerman sent a letter to President Elect Donald Trump and the Trump Transition Team. The Internet Association is made up …
