Posts Tagged: Obama
Are Today’s Social Media Tech Giants the Big Brother that Orwell Warned Us About?
Dystopian novels and science fiction often return to the subject of the loss of personal privacy which is often encouraged by the use of technology enabling constant, …
Executives for America’s tech giants refuse to come to Congress to testify on net neutrality
The Facebooks, Googles and Netflixes of the world, edge providers that provide Internet services via websites but not an Internet connection like ISPs offer, have every reason …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Senate passes 21st Century Cures Act, President Obama expected to quickly sign bill into law
Earlier today, by a vote of 94 to 5, the United States Senate overwhelmingly passed the 21st Century Cures Act. Having passed in the House, the Cures Act now …
The America Invents Act Five Years Later: Reality, Consequences and Perspectives
At exactly 11:42am on September 16, 2011, President Barak Obama signed the America Invents Act into law. As President Obama put his pen down he said: “All right guys, …
President Obama nominates Karen Gren Scholer to Eastern District of Texas
Karen Gren Scholer has been nominated to serve on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. If confirmed, Scholer, who was born in …
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 …
Beware the Ides of March: How Surrogates Will Set Patent Policy
In 2008 the surrogates did at least increase the emphasis on having some form of post grant challenge procedure in the bill that would pass Congress and be …
Federal funding for a cancer moonshot is not a terrible idea
To hear Ars Technica say it is ''a terrible idea'' to devote increased funding in order to eradicate cancer is astonishing on many levels. As part of …
President Obama continues technology focus in his final year
The administration of the 44th President of the United States will be remembered for many reasons, but one theme which has been playing out since the earliest …
Conservatives Should Have No Part of Patent Reform
''We have corporate interests masquerading the drastic overhaul of the patent system as mere tort reform... It makes no sense to undermine long-standing property rights to address …
USPTO budget increases for FY 2016 despite reduced fee estimates
This latest budget increases the amount of money that will be available to the United States Patent and Trademark Office, although the amount specifically appropriated is less …
