Patent trolls filed nearly 200 lawsuits last Wednesday in an attempt to dodge proposed reforms brewing in Congress. Targets includes familiar names like Harry & David and Dress Barn. Read more »
The king of the patent trolls is raising new money to expand its trolling activities but this time Apple, which is tired of trolls, has declined to fund it. Read more »
The medical practice of blood-letting persisted for decades in the face of evidence that it was a bad idea. Today’s patent system is experiencing the same difficulty. Read more »
The problem of patent trolling is rooted in economics: there is little downside to filing outrageous lawsuits since it often costs the other side more to defend than settle. The Supreme… Read more »
The government and the media are taking an increasingly dim view of patent trolls. The biggest of the trolls is responding with new lobbying efforts. Read more »
Intellectual Ventures went to trial for the first time. The case was supposed to be a landmark test for its patent trolling model but the case ended in a mistrial. Read more »
The giant patent troll Intellectual Ventures decided to publish a partial list of the more than 40,000 patents it holds. Why is it doing this? Read more »
Patent trolls are plundering the economy like never before — even though a 2011 law was supposed to stop this. Now, Congress is trying again, and it might actually work. Read more »
The Federal Trade Commission will use its subpoena power to look into 25 so-called “patent assertion entities” which have made a business of amassing old patents in order to extract license… Read more »
Santa Clara law professor Colleen Chien, who has published research that questions the economic justification for patent trolling, will advise the Obama Administration’s Chief Technology Officer. Read more »