Supreme Court Strikes Blow Against Patent Trolls In 1990, only 1 patent lawsuit was filed in the Federal court for the Eastern District of Texas. In the first quarter of 2017 it was 311 or 1/3rd of all patent infringement suits. It was especially popular with Non-Practicing Entities, i.e., entities that hold patent assets but…
April 20, 2015 A Dozen Things in Tech You Need to Know Happy Patriot’s Day! Patriot’s Day commemorates that Battle of Lexington and Concord and the “shot heard ’round the world” that began the American Revolution. It is a holiday in Maine and Massachachusetts and celebrated by, among other things, the running of the Boston…
JOEL VOELZKE EXPLAINS LATEST SUPREME COURT PATENT RULINGS HOW MANY SUPREME COURT JUSTICES DOES IT TAKE TO STIFLE INNOVATION? AMERICAN BROADCASTING COS., INC., ET AL. v. AEREO, INC., FKA BAMBOOM LABS, INC. LISTEN Play in new window | Download (46.4MB) Aereo smells enough like a cable company to find it infringes. But don’t call it…
Spotlight Falls on Patent Trolls and Junk Patents One of Silicon Valley’s top legislative priorities has been addressing patent trolls. In the last few days there have been major developments on this front in both Washington and at the State level. States Declare Troll-Hunting Season The first shot in the battle over trolls was fired…
A patent troll generally is a business whose only asset are a portfolio of patents and who make money principally by suing or threatening lawsuits against alleged infringers. Advertising and marketing companies have been hit with patent claims over the use of QR codes in coupons, promotions distributed in text messages, podcasts and pull-down menus…
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