WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – Entrepreneur Bryan Pate, a self-described “risk taker” and “optimist,” admits that few things scare him, but count proposed changes to the nation’s patent system among them. Pate, a former Marine officer and now… Read More »
Robert Nelsen, Co-founder and Managing Director, ARCH Venture Partners, has helped to create over 30 biotech companies during the past three decades. Hans Bishop is the CEO of Juno Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage company developing novel cellular… Read More »
As a student at the University of Minnesota, one of the top research universities in the nation, I am greatly concerned with the proposed legislation dealing with patent reform. I agree there is a need to cut… Read More »
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – Federal lawmakers argued at a hearing Wednesday, held to discuss patent reform, that action must be taken to rein in so-called “patent trolls,” but agreed they must find the right balance. “Almost everyone… Read More »
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – A group of 40 economists and law professors from around the country sent a letter to members of Congress Tuesday, expressing serious concerns with the many “flawed, unreliable or incomplete” patent litigation studies that… Read More »
Conservatives are stepping up their opposition to a Republican-backed patent-reform bill in Congress that they warn will trample on American inventors’ rights in the name of stopping frivolous lawsuits. Two dozen prominent conservative political groups, led by… Read More »
In a letter to Congress today, 40 law professors and economists expressed serious concerns that Congress is considering restructuring the US patent system based on many flawed, unreliable, and unrepresentative studies of patent litigation. The letter also… Read More »
With competing bills in Congress and lobbying dollars pouring into the fight, it’s fair to say that the patent reform debate is heating up. Earlier this week a coalition of groups including the Association of American Universities,… Read More »
Yesterday Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) gave a speech at Inventing America: Patents, Innovation, Jobs and the Economy, which was held at the Newseum in Washington, DC. Senator Coons is unlike many Members of Congress for a variety… Read More »
From the Report Abstract: American standard-setting organizations (SSOs) are associations through which businesses set voluntary industrial standards. Many SSO participants hold “standard essential patents” (SEPs) that may be needed to implement individual SSO standards. SSOs rely on… Read More »
