Posts Tagged: PAEs
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. …
The Transformation of the American Patent System: Adverse Consequences of Court Decisions
Activist Supreme Court decisions in the last decade have been principally responsible for these changes, stimulated by aggressive technology company incumbent lobbying. The combination of these decisions …
The Year in Patents: The Top 10 Patent Stories from 2016
To come up with the list below I’ve reviewed all of our patent articles, and have come up with these top 10 patent stories for 2016. They appear …
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 …
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 …
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 …
FTC report recommendations largely legislative in scope in new patent assertion entity report
The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) recently released report on patent assertion entities (PAEs) includes a number of key findings made by the agency on the business …
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 …
Ars Technica reports confuse “patent troll” with legitimate patent owners enforcing property rights
To be fair, the coverage by Ars Technica doesn’t take the same vituperative tone as other voices who have concerns related to abuses of the U.…
FTC releases report on PAE Activity, recognizes important role of enforcing patents
Despite what many thought were the intentions of the FTC going into this project, the FTC did acknowledge the important role patent enforcement plays within the patent …
Will Yahoo Feed the Patent Trolls?
Yahoo’s proposed auction of the Excalibur portfolio is likely to be the largest sale of computer-related patents since the Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Int’l …
Research Universities Face Licensing Limitations Sought by Electronic Frontier Foundation
Another incursion into research university governance and operations is now underway. And this time all research universities are affected. Led by the DC Based Electronic Frontier Foundation, …
