Posts Tagged: infringer
Facebook drops efficient infringement clause from its React software license
In late September, an official blog post published by Menlo Park, CA-based social media giant Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) and penned by Adam Wolff, the company’s engineering …
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 …
Patent Quality Relies on a Fictitious Narrative
The facts are that the quest for the golden patent is misplaced. The real problem has been the shifting and artificial criteria of patentability, inventiveness and “obviousness.” …
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 …
Northern District of California revises local patent rules, requires damages disclosures early and often
Damages discovery in patent cases is usually contentious, expensive, and non-uniform in application by the courts. The patent owner, on one hand, wants to discover all possible …
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 …
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 …
If patent laws were correctly calibrated to spur innovation the efficient infringer would pay
Ashley Keller: "However, when you do infringe a patent, even if it was efficient for you to do so, the upshot should be you have to pay. …
Patent Reform at all Costs: Desperate reformer resorts to lies
It is pure nonsense to say that opponents of patent reform never offer specifics, cite or discuss textual language of the bills. Utter fiction and complete fantasy. …
Bias in Both Directions: Patent Reform Should Protect Both Accused Infringers and Inventors
What’s stunning about this list is that almost nobody talks about reforming patent law to correct these biases! In general, the only biases that are socially …
How the U.S. is Killing Innovation and why it Matters for Entrepreneurs
The engine that made America a greatest economic power was a patent system that led to tremendous innovation by incentivizing entrepreneurial …
Will the Supreme Court bring balance back to the patent market?
Patent damages generally, and enhanced damages specifically, are a patent political powder keg because there are so many corporations that are users of technology. These technology using, …
A toxic concoction of myth, media and money is killing the patent system
In the past decade, the patent system has been turned on its head. Inventors are now villainized as cartoon characters called patent trolls simply because they assert …
Akamai v. Limelight: Defendant may directly infringe where steps performed by a third party
The en banc Court reversed the previous panel, and expanded the circumstances under which an alleged infringer may be liable under §271(a). In addition to circumstances identified …
Does Stealing Intellectual Property Boost Innovation?
Confiscating other people’s property is hardly the way to stimulate prosperity or creativity. If it were, Venezuela would be one of the richest, most innovative countries …
