Category Archives: Patent Law

The latest on patent trolls and how to stop them: In June 2016, the US Supreme Court upheld the right of patent infringement defendants to seek Inter Partes review of the patent by the USPTO A court overturned a $625 … Continue reading →

The latest on patent trolls and how to stop them: 2015 was the second biggest year ever for filing patent lawsuits. A jury found Apple owes $626 million in damages for infringing a patent by the use of software including … Continue reading →

The latest on patent trolls and how to stop them: Is the University of Wisconsin acting like a patent troll? The requirements for writing a proper patent lawsuit have increased, but that may not change things much. Nintendo prevails against … Continue reading →

The latest on patent trolls and how to stop them: Why do companies settle against patent trolls?  An example is a $533 million verdict against Apple. The most popular venue for patent cases is the Eastern District of Texas.  One … Continue reading →

This is the latest on patent troll news: Most notably, the US Supreme Court ruled that patents on ideas done on a computer are more suspect The FTC settles its first case against a patent troll A court imposed a … Continue reading →

Here’s the latest on patent troll news: Looks like there will not be any patent troll legislation this year after all. In the meantime, states are trying to pass their own anti-troll laws. Family communications app, Life360, is fighting back … Continue reading →

Here are highlights of patent troll coverage of the last few months: Congress continues to work its way through various patent troll bills, although the bill making the most progress, the Innovation Act, does not touch the probable root of … Continue reading →

Patent troll developments keep coming, so here’s the latest: The Federal Trade Commission continues to look into patent trolls. NPR remains a steady source of features on patent trolls. A Washington Post columnist says patent trolls is a software patent … Continue reading →

Here’s the latest on news and views on patent trolls: The most significant recent development is that patent trolls are definitely on President Obama’s radar (including an animated editorial!) The Federal Trade Commission is also investigating patent trolls. States are … Continue reading →

Farmer, Vernon Bowman, gets an A for effort and imagination, but his idea of using “commodity soybeans” (intended for human or animal consumption) to plant soybean crops was deemed by the Supreme Court to infringe Big Ag company, Monsanto’s, patents … Continue reading →