As chair of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), I’m responding to a recent blog post on this forum by venture capitalists Brad Burnham and Jason Mendelson on the issue of patent reform. I admire both men… Read More »
H.R. 9, the ill-named “Innovation Act” will allow large, market-dominant firms to infringe with impunity, by making it much more difficult for small inventors to enforce their patents. Three years ago, the American Invents Act made it… Read More »
A letter to Congress from 51 professors of law and economics argues that “the net effect of patent litigation is to raise the cost of innovation and inhibit technological progress.” In response, an equally strong letter to… Read More »
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 »
