Tell Congress To Stop These Last-Minute Bills That Help Patent Trolls

This week, the Senate Judiciary Committee is set to use its limited time in the lame-duck session to vote on a bill that would make the patent system even worse. The Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (S. 2140), or PERA, would undo vital limits on...

Patient Rights and Consumer Groups Join EFF In Opposing Two Extreme Patent Bills

The U.S. Senate is set to vote this Thursday on two bills that could significantly empower patent trolls. The Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA) would bring back many of the abstract computer patents that have been barred for the past 10...

Congress Must Stop Pushing Bills That Will Benefit Patent Trolls

The U.S. Senate is moving forward with two bills that would enrich patent trolls, patent system insiders, and a few large companies that rely on flimsy patents, at the expense of everyone else. One bill, the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act...

How To Fight Bad Patents: 2023 Year In Review

At EFF, we believe that all the rights we have in the offline world–to speak freely, create culture, play games, build things and do business–must hold up in the digital world, as well. EFF’s longstanding project of fighting for a more balanced,...

Congress Shouldn't Limit The Public's Right To Fight Bad Patents

The U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Intellectual Property will debate a bill this week that would dramatically limit the public’s right to challenge bad granted patents. The PREVAIL Act, S. 2220 would bar most people from petitioning the U.S. Patent...

This Bill Would Revive The Worst Patents On Software—And Human Genes  

The majority of high-tech patent lawsuits are brought by patent trolls—companies that exist not to provide products or services, but primarily have a business using patents to threaten others’ work. Some politicians are proposing to make that bad...

The U.S. Patent Office Should Drop Proposed Rules That Favor Patent Trolls

More than 14,000 people and organizations, including EFF, have sent public comments responding to a wrongheaded proposal by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to change the rules about patent challenges in a way that would favor patent...

Stupid Patent of the Month: Digital Verification Systems Patents E-Signatures 

Patent trolls make patents, and argue over them. They don’t have to ever make the thing described in their patents, if it’s even possible to determine what those things are. Instead, they generate legal threats and waste the time and money of...

The Federal Circuit Helps a Patent Troll Block Public Access to Court Records

For more than three years, EFF has been fighting for public access to court records in a patent case between Uniloc, one of the world’s most prolific patent trolls, and Apple, one of the world’s biggest tech companies. The district court has ruled...

Patent Litigation 2022 in Turkey | Gün + Partners

1. What are the principal sources of law and regulation relating to patents and patent litigation?

EPO Issues Guidance On Achieving Unitary Patent Status From Day 1 Of The UPC/UP System For European Patent Applications Coming Up To Grant - Intellectual Property - European Union

With the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and unitary patent (UP) system now likely to commence towards the second half of 2022...

Podcast Episode: Saving Podcasts from a Patent Troll

Imagine getting a letter in the mail—and then another, and then another—telling you that if you don’t pay $25,000 to a company you’ve never heard of, you’ll have to shut down the small business that you’ve worked for years to build. That’s exactly...

Consultation on Standard Essential Patent (SEP) framework launched by UK IPO

The UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has published an open consultation Standard Essential Patents and Innovation: Call for views in order in order to better understand the current framework’s…

It’s a big 48 hours for BlackBerry and the patent market in general

The company is due to release its Q3 financials tomorrow, but it is not known whether the touted sale of a portfolio of well over 30,000 individual assets will also be announced

[Meme] EPO: Pursuing an Eastern and Western District of Europe (for Patent Trolls and Software Patents)

With the EPO so flagrantly lying and paying for misinformation maybe we should expect Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos to have delusions of grandeur… such as presiding over the Eastern and Western District of Europe, just like Mr. Gilstrap...

Dallas Invents: 71 Patents Granted for Week of Dec. 21 » Dallas Innovates

Check out this week's ranking for inventive activity in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington.

Ericsson's Chief 'IP' Officer Kasim Alfalahi Has Become a Parasite and Patent Troll in Avanci

Trolls have ridden the latest wave of fronting for large corporations by taking their patents for so-called ‘assertion’ or ‘monetisation’ (trolling like MPEG-LA and many of Microsoft’s patent trolls)

[Market Eye] Korean tech giants fall prey to patent trolling

Though the pandemic has driven record-breaking profits for tech firms, as demand for at-home leisure and communications hardware rises, it has also brought a growing threat from patent trolls. Companies specializing in exploiting patent rights...