Posts Tagged: patent litigation abuse
USPTO Director Nominee Andrei Iancu has Confirmation Hearing Before the Senate Judiciary Committee
On the afternoon of Wednesday, November 29th, the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary held a hearing to consider the nomination of four political appointees from …
Patent ‘gold rush’ to blame for patent sharks, patent trolls
Patent trolls – as well as calls for changes to the law to prevent them – date back to at least the 1800’s. A look at their history suggests …
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 …
The PTAB has failed to solve the patent troll problem created by large operating companies
The patent troll problem has always been a creation of large operating companies. They obtained dubious, highly questionable patents. These low quality patents were then sold to …
Goodlatte pledges to pursue patent litigation reform, copyright reform in 115th Congress
Congressman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) holds the Chairmanship of the House Judiciary Committee, and as such will wield a great deal of power over any intellectual property related …
Hillary Clinton supports patent reform, announces technology and innovation initiative
Clinton's proposal for accomplishing this goal would be twofold: (1) to reduce excessive patent litigation through additional patent reform; and (2) strengthening the operational capacity of the USPTO by …
Loan fraud charges filed by SEC target notable patent troll Jay Mac Rust
The patent trolling by MPHJ and owner, Texas lawyer Jay Mac Rust, are well known. But now the SEC is going after Jay Mac Rust in federal …
What Can We Learn from the FTC’s Patent Assertion Entity Study?
It’s very unlikely that obtaining data from just 25 PAEs will provide a representative sampling of PAEs given that the universe of PAEs is largely unknown and …
Congressman Issa calls patent trolls and plaintiffs interchangeable during ITC hearing
The Subcommittee is Chaired by Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA), who has been an outspoken advocate for the need for more patent reform in order to provide relief …
USPTO Director Michelle Lee delivers pro-patent speech at MIT
This speech by Director Lee is exceptionally important for two reasons. First, the strong and explicit recognition that abuse can and does happen on both sides of …
What are Legitimate Patent Rights and Who are Legitimate Patent Owners?
Use of this phrase strikes me as indefensible because by its very nature it implies picking winners and losers after the Patent Office has already issued a …
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. …
The story of the bullied patent owner, more widespread than bad acting patent trolls
We have all heard it. We all know it happens. Large company takes a look at what small company is working on, refuses to do a deal …
Behind the Scenes on Octane Fitness and Fee-Shifting
I think there was certainly a level of abuse prior to patent trolls from larger companies that weren’t scrupulous trying to sue smaller companies and using …
The Patent Games Publicly Traded Companies Play
In the patent arena it is not hypocrisy that is fueling the misguided strategies of tech companies. Instead it is the self-interest of tech CEOs who are …
