Posts Tagged: NPE’s
MA State Senator Eric Lesser makes push towards reform on bad faith patent assertions
The HuffPost recently published a piece authored by Massachusetts State Senator Eric P. Lesser (D), which is titled Patent Trolls Are Trolling Startups In Massachusetts - And …
House IP Subcommittee holds yet another one-sided hearing on bad patents and patent trolls
House IP subcommittee chair Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) led off the hearing by discussing the large number of interests who are often on Capitol Hill to discuss …
Myths about patent trolls prevent honest discussion about U.S. patent system
A $1 trillion a year industry not wanting to pay innovators less than a 1% royalty on the innovations they appropriate (i.e., steal) for their own profits seems …
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 …
Why the Unified Patents Model Would Not Work in China
Unified Patents is a relatively new form of patent troll that works as a “Troll of Trolls” or “ToT.” They file IPRs (inter-partes reexamination requests) to kill …
Clearing the Underbrush: How to Fight Low Quality Patents Related to Commoditized Technology that Threaten Innovation
IP departments are often forced to spend their limited budget defending patent troll lawsuits targeted at the base computing and service layers instead of where it should …
Does Patented Intellectual Property Still Matter? Yes, Depending on Who You Are
If Bill Hewlett and David Packard were just starting in their garage, they might be wise not to waste money acquiring them... An individual inventor, or SME, …
Why NPEs are necessary for China to dominate its domestic chip industry
NPEs are uniquely positioned to help China by attacking foreign entities to clear the way for Chinese companies by exerting pressure in ways that only NPEs can. …
Doing the Math on Patent Trolls: The U.S. patent system is a most efficient government program
Patents and the innovators who own them do not “cost” the U.S. economy tens of billions of dollars each year. This claim has been repeatedly and …
A Toxic Brew – and the Cure for the U.S. Patent System
The Supreme Court has run two areas of technology, bio and software, into a legal ditch from which there is no escape.... It should be no surprise …
Don’t Feed the Trolls: Practicality in View of the FTC’s Report on Patent Assertion Entities
The Norwegian fairy tale “Three Billy Goats Gruff” was far ahead of its time and the moral of that story has a very relevant, modern application. In …
A string of successful settlements by Network-1 undermines FTC’s definition of ‘litigation PAEs’
Anyone who has followed recent developments in the U.S. patent landscape, however, might note something interesting occurring in this particular case. According to the recent patent …
The FTC’s PAE Study: Doing More Harm Than Good
Basing policy recommendations on no evidence, or at best anecdotal evidence, has great potential to do more harm than good…especially when some of the missing evidence …
Why should litigation costs of the infringer be relevant to determine if a license is fair or just a nuisance?
Why should the costs of the tortfeasing infringer be relevant in determining whether the extracted value from a settlement is fair? The fact that law firms charge …
Lies, Damn Lies and Media Bias: Fortune Misrepresents FTC Report on Patent Assertion Entities
Simply stated, Fortune is wrong. The FTC report did not have harsh words for patent trolls. In fact, the FTC had harsh words for those who use …
