Dallas News: If Apple Wants to Dump Frisco, Fine, But Let’s Not Pretend This Tech Giant is a Victim by Austin Curry
A recent Dallas Morning News editorial blamed so-called patent trolls for Apple closing two stores in Plano and Frisco. My law firm represents several of the businesses described as “opportunistic companies” that “exploit the courts and our patent law.”… Read More »
Patently-O: Patent Eligibility and Investment by David Taylor
Numerous inventors, lawyers, companies, industry groups, professors, and judges have decried the Supreme Court’s recent patent eligibility cases—particularly its 2012 decision in Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc. and its 2014 decision in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International…. Read More »
Morning Consult: Storm Clouds Lifting on American Invention by Charlie Giancarlo
It is not an overstatement to say that American inventors have faced a perfect storm of judicial and legislative hurdles in recent years, hurdles that have weakened their intellectual property rights and undermined their potential rewards and… Read More »
Legal Reader: Lex Machina’s Annual Patent Litigation Report by Jay W. Belle Esle
Lex Machina, a LexisNexis company and creator of the award-winning Legal Analytics® platform, released its sixth annual Patent Litigation Report at the end of January – its most comprehensive report on patent litigation trends to date. The report illustrates data-driven… Read More »
The Hill: Ayn Rand would weep over our fraying IP laws by Charles Sauer
Despite the popularity of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, which tells the tale of greedy politicians left with nothing to plunder after innovators and producers go on strike, society seems to miss that essential message and find a… Read More »
Politico: An Overreaching Patent Office Appeal Board Threatens Innovation and Inventors by James Daly
Can a bunch of water balloons be worth $20 million? To Josh Malone, and many inventors like him, they can be worth that and a lot more. Malone, a father of eight and survivor of many spirited… Read More »
IP Watchdog: American Innovation at Risk: The New Congress Must Clarify Which Inventions Are Eligible for Patents by Herbert Wamsley
The U.S. Supreme Court has muddied the waters about patent eligibility in a way that threatens American innovation. Capitol Hill is beginning to discuss this as a possible legislative issue for 2019. Some would say it is… Read More »
U.S. Department of Justice: Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim Delivers Remarks at the 19th Annual Berkeley-Stanford Advanced Patent Law Institute
Thank you Jim for that introduction, and for inviting me today to participate in the Advanced Patent Law Institute. As the Assistant Attorney General of the Antitrust Division, I spend most of my time with antitrust lawyers… Read More »
RealClear Markets: We Too Easily Ignore Intellectual Property Theft in the U.S. by Raghu Rau
America is unique in its tradition of protecting individual ingenuity to spur new technologies and new industries that allow this country to be the cradle of innovation. It is no accident that America was the birthplace of… Read More »