Posts Tagged: Obama Administration
The Honeymoon is Over: Time for Iancu to Take Action on PTAB Harassment of Patent Owners
Just over 18 months ago, Andrei Iancu assumed control of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). As the Director of the USPTO, Iancu has changed the …
DOJ Antitrust Chief Raises Standard Setting Concerns
Increasingly, Delrahim's speeches are moving past where he began in his USC speech in November 2017, discussing this being the appropriate time to now have a discussion about …
Happy Birthday Patent System: Hope Springs Eternal
In 1790, the U.S. patent laws were first enacted and individuals could obtain a patent under the new federal government. For about a century beforehand, British citizens …
Is Trump being bamboozled by Obama holdovers on patent policy?
The USPTO’s Obama holdovers Michelle Lee and Tony Scardino are simply co-opting the exact language used in Obama's budgets for fiscal years 2015 to 2017 into Trump’s 2018 …
Slump in Clean Energy Patents Causes Concern
As of late, the spike of clean energy technology innovation is slowing down in the United States, during a time that the Trump administration is aiming to …
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 …
Patently Surreal: The Obama Strategic Plan on IP Enforcement
It is almost impossible to believe this report is the work product of the Obama Administration. The section on patents, which begins on page 134, reads like a …
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 …
Maria Pallante fired as Register of Copyrights in Policy Power Grab
In a fast moving story that developed late last week, Maria Pallante is now the former Register of Copyrights. According to The Register, critics believe this was …
10% of judicial emergencies are in EDTX, the preferred venue for patent litigation
Three of the judicial emergencies, just less than 10 percent of all judicial emergencies in the U.S. federal court system, are in the U.S. District Court …
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. …
Appellate court upholds net neutrality rules that will hurt U.S. consumer, stagnate Internet innovation
The reason why net neutrality came up in the American political discourse in late 2014 has much to do with paid prioritization. Paid prioritization is an agreement in …
Obama Administration strongly supports Defend Trade Secrets Act
Earlier today the White House released a Statement of Administration Policy, which strongly supports passage of s. 1890, the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (DTSA). The policy statement …
Merrick Garland’s deference to federal agencies should be concerning to patent owners
Given the fact that the IPR processes at PTAB have been worrisome for many patent owners, the possibility that Merrick Garland would continue his longstanding deference towards …
President Obama should nominate Judge Raymond Chen to the Supreme Court
Chen, an Obama appointee, was confirmed only several years ago by a vote of 97-0. Born in 1968 he is 47 years old, meaning he could easily serve on …
