Richard A. Epstein is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law, the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow, The Hoover Institution, and the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law, Emeritus ESC and Senior Fellow the… Read More »
Rep. Rohrabacher represents California’s 48th Congressional District. He is vice chairman of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. You might have thought a gun-shy Congress wouldn’t legislate sweeping reform efforts that will backfire on the whole… Read More »
This article is part of Future Tense, a collaboration among Arizona State University, the New America Foundation, and Slate that explores the ways emerging technologies affect society, policy, and culture. On Dec. 9, 2013, Future Tense will… Read More »
From their study of patent assertion entities (PAEs), scholars Christopher Anthony Cotropia (University of Richmond School of Law), Jay P. Kesan (University of Illinois College of Law) and David L. Schwartz (Illinois Institute of Technology – Chicago-Kent… Read More »
Gene Quinn is a US Patent Attorney, law professor and the founder of IPWatchdog.com. Prominent inventors have now joined the growing chorus of those opposed to the Innovation Act (HR 3309). Specifically, the letter and recommendations below… Read More »
CQ Roll Call reported last week that House Judiciary Chairman, Congressman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), is fast tracking the Innovation Act (HR 3309) despite growing bi-partisan concerns of those on the House Judiciary Committee. Reportedly, a markup of… Read More »
One would think that developing, manufacturing, marketing and distributing a product and doing it well would ensure at least some measured degree of success. However, as products become increasingly digital, containing an amalgamation of patented technology, changes… Read More »
Bernard J. Knight Jr. is the former General Counsel for the US Patent and Trademark Office where he served from 2010 to 2013. Now a partner in the Washington office of McDermott Will & Emery, he counsels… Read More »
Tech sector giants have been crying and moaning about how the patent system has run amok and needs to be scaled back, and continually beg for patent reform that would gut the patent system and weaken patent… Read More »
U.S. lawmakers, influenced by companies including Cisco Systems Inc., Eli Lilly & Co. and Qualcomm Inc. , are considering the second set of patent-law changes in three years as the courts try to race ahead of Congress…. Read More »
