Showing posts with label patent assertion entities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label patent assertion entities. Show all posts
Thursday, 8 November 2018

USPTO Director Iancu Calls for Change of Focus in so-called "Patent Troll" Debate

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USPTO Director Iancu recently gave a speech in Texas concerning the debate involving innovation and patent enforcement by so-called "p...
Tuesday, 7 November 2017

Chemical Company Joins the LOT Network Against Trolls

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Covestro , a chemical company which uses digital technologies to build better products, has joined the LOT Network.   As previously disc...
Friday, 28 April 2017

"Opportunistic" Google and Intertrust Launch "Patent Shield": Protection for Startups

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Google and Intertrust have announced the creation of Patent Shield, which is designed to protect startups.   Essentially, the exchange i...
Thursday, 6 April 2017

Preparation for (more) Patent Assertion Entites in Europe: Intellectual Property 2 Innovate

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As reported by Florian Mueller on the FOSS Patents Blog on April 5, a relatively new organization has been formed to raise awareness of a...
Thursday, 3 November 2016

Stanford Law School Patent Assertion Entity Symposium Call for Proposals

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The Stanford Law School is holding a Patent Assertion Entity (PAEs) symposium based on the empirical research of Mark Lemley and Shawn Mill...
Friday, 7 October 2016

U.S. Federal Trade Commission Releases Report on Patent Assertion Entities

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On October 6, 2016, the Federal Trade Commission [FTC] released a 269 page report titled,  "Patent Assertion Entity Activity: An FTC S...
Tuesday, 17 November 2015

Google's License on Transfer Network: A Good Way to Avoid Patent Trolls?

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Google, along with a number of other companies, started the License On Transfer (LOT) Network on July 9, 2014.   The general purpose of t...
Thursday, 3 July 2014

Who are the “Good” “Trolls”? Or, How to Monetize Well?

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This blog, in the past, has discussed the merits of so-called “patent trolls” or patent assertion entities (PAEs), here , here  and here .  ...
Friday, 21 February 2014

A Sensible Approach to the "Patent Troll" Debate in the US

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Professor Timothy Holbrook of Emory University Law School has written a very sensible Op-ed titled, "Not all patent trolls are demons,...