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In Depth: Recent Reform Damages Proposals Part 1
February 22, 2010
There has been much discussion and escalating controversy in recent years about patent damage awards for infringement. With each iteration of proposed patent law reforms, Congress has become increasin...
The broken patent system: No laughing matter
February 19, 2010
We couldn’t help but chuckle at The Huffington Post’s post on ridiculous patents the PTO has granted recently. It’s just good old-fashioned fun to vote on whether the “apparatus for waking a s...
New York Times Takes A Small Peek Under IV’s Cloak
February 18, 2010
In today’s New York Times, Steve Lohr has a write up and a blog post about the highly controversial ‘Intellectual Ventures.’ Due to their intensively secretive nature and unusual business mo...
Intriguing Development On Eve of National Broadband Plan
February 10, 2010
As the FCC is developing ideas to boost high speed broadband deployment and adoption, there’s a new initiative on the horizon that may dovetail well with the National Broadband Plan. A tech company,...
CCIA Sends Letter to Congress Urging the Passage of Comprehensive Patent Reform
February 9, 2010
With just a couple lines at last month’s State of the Union Address, President Obama provided some crucial momentum for patent reform. Obama stressed that jobs start from the bottom up, when worke...
iPad: Doesn’t Support Flash, Multitasking; But Supports Patent Lawyers
February 4, 2010
On January 28, the day after Apple announced its highly-anticipated iPad product to the world, a company called Intellect Wireless sued Apple in the Northern District of Illinois, seeking nearly $10 m...
Is “intellectual property” either?
February 2, 2010
Yesterday we mentioned a little-noticed story from last week - overshadowed by the State of the Union, the iPad launch, and here in DC, the State of the Net- in which Google was exonerated by a jur...
Series on Venue Shopping and the Eastern District of Texas Part 3
February 1, 2010
Plaintiff-hungry lawyers Gobble Up Eastern District of Texas Patent CasesAs we’ve talked about, there are a few significant reasons why cases are so often taken to Marshall, such as plaintiff-friend...
Beating the odds in Eastern Texas
February 1, 2010
We have discussed the Eastern District of Texas’s reputation as a haven for patent trolls. Patent holders suing for infringement check in at a 78 percent success rate in the Eastern District of ...
What Can You Do With $5.5 Million?
January 29, 2010
This week President Obama addressed job creation and spending in his State of the Union address. Although he did not directly address the broken patent system, his speech did support a few of the issu...
Patent Reform is Crucial to Obama’s Global Competition and Innovation Agenda
January 28, 2010
During last night’s State of the Union address, President Obama spoke of the need to maintain the nation’s competitive position in the world and to encourage innovation. While we wholeheartedly ag...