Last week, our company sent an open letter to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the standards-setting organization that brings us Wi-Fi among other things. In that letter, we advised the group we don’t agree… Read More »
Mark Twain famously said that there “are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” Unfortunately, this is just as true today. Misleading statistics about patented innovation have been deliberately injected into the policy debate for… Read More »
Inventors’ Day is usually a day to celebrate innovation, but this year it is also a day to defend innovation and entrepreneurs, and push back against members of Congress who are proposing to weaken our patent system,… Read More »
Alex Frommeyer is founder and CEO of Beam Technologies, creator of the digital health tool the Beam Brush, and is based in Louisville, KY. As a startup founder in Kentucky’s science and technology sector, I have had… Read More »
The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed H.R. 3309, the so-called “Innovation Act.” In reality, it is patent legislation that could dramatically diminish the protection given to inventions, and thus negatively impact our economic future and our… Read More »
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) “I am wary of overkill. I am wary of unintended consequences. We have a very important obligation here to make sure that we do no harm.” – Reuters (12/17/13) Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) To Chairman Patrick… Read More »
As early as spring, President Obama may sign some version of a bill addressing patent litigation – at least according to legal observers watching the situation closely. What it will look like is an open question and… Read More »
A recurring theme that can be traced through the patent reforms of the AIA to the current debate over patent litigation abuse is the issue of patent quality. A key component of the reported abuses is the… Read More »
Witnesses at a Dec. 17 Senate hearing on patent litigation reform (S. 1720) reprised a divide reminiscent of the debate leading up to passage of the America Invents Act two years ago, but missing from the House’s… Read More »
Earlier this month, the Innovation Act, meant to curb abusive patent litigation, passed in the US House of Representatives on a 321-95 vote—just two months after the debate began in earnest in mid-October. The process was almost… Read More »
