Negotiations Over Single EU Patent End Without Agreement
Unfortunately for those who support a single European patent, negotiations broke down on Wednesday evening and the status quo will remain. According to the Financial Times the sticking point was with...
View ArticleGAO Report Finds No NPE Patent Litigation Crisis
Instead of condemning NPES, the GAO emphasized at the very outset of its report that our nation’s history is filled with examples of inventors who did not develop products based on the patented...
View ArticleGAO Report Unmasks the Mythical Patent Troll Problem
The GAO report explains that the number of patent litigations only slightly fluctuated between 200o and 2010, with a one-third increase in 2011, which the report attributed to changes to patent laws...
View ArticleTech Round-Up: Toyota Invests in AI, EU Safe Harbor Invalidated, New Android...
American business interests could be adrift at sea after the European Court of Justice invalidated the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor agreement, which governs the transfer of data from European citizens to data...
View ArticleRep. Lamar Smith calls NOAA ‘afraid of innovation’ during hearing on weather...
The day’s most withering criticisms, however, came from the House science committee’s ranking Republican, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX). Smith contended that NOAA’s problems had been debated by the committee...
View ArticleInspector General’s Hyperbolic Report Distracts From Improving Patent Quality
More importantly, the OIG’s report misses the point. Nearly everyone agrees that the quality of patents being issued is a problem, but the OIG didn’t consider patent quality at all. The OIG’s proposed...
View ArticleThe House IP Subcommittee: A Bunch of Fiddling Neros Watching the U.S. Patent...
Interestingly, in the history of the entire CBM program, only three petitions have ended with final written decisions upholding all claims as valid. That’s 1 percent of all CBM petitions ultimately...
View ArticleAmazon.com: A Retail Giant With Major Counterfeit, Piracy and Data Privacy...
It’s not just counterfeits of gadgets or luxury fashion items available for sale on Amazon, lining the already deep pockets of Bezos. As we’ve noted in other reports, there are plenty of counterfeit...
View ArticleHouse Subcommittees Hold Hearing on Artificial Intelligence Challenges and...
On the morning of Tuesday, June 26th, both the House Subcommittee on Research and Technology and the House Subcommittee on Energy held a hearing titled Artificial Intelligence - With Great Power Comes...
View ArticleCapitol Hill Roundup
This week in Capitol Hill hearings focuses solely on meetings happening at the U.S. Senate. The one hearing scheduled at the U.S. House of Representatives, which was to explore whether the Federal...
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