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PTAB- And Court-Bashing USPTO Director Consistent With 'Presidential' Behaviour in Age of Donald Trump
The attacks on the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and the courts which support it are becoming difficult to ignore, especially because they've escalated from fringe blogs of patent maximalists to the top of the most influential patent office in the world, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
USPTO Under Iancu: Making Patents Low Quality (Again)
Patents of questionable legitimacy are being granted, passed around, and used for litigation; the net effect may be financially beneficial to the lawsuits 'industry', but taxpayers and science suffer the most
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The ITC Makes Embargo Using Almost-Expired Patents a Business Strategy of Intimidation and Harassment
Clark Cheney, an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) at the USITC (or ITC), is willing to let expired patents (or soon-to-expire patents) be used for embargo purposes, defeating the purpose or very premise (and promise) of the patent system
The Institute of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys of Australia Wants Litigation, Hence It Wants Software Patents
The Institute of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys of Australia (IPTA) — like its equivalents in Europe and the US — wants nothing more and nothing less than additional lawsuits, i.e. expanded patent scope and lower standards/thresholds for patenting
The EPO Lost Any Sense of Shame About Granting Patents on Software, Which It Openly Welcomes and Even Encourages
“Global patenting and emerging technologies” conference in Munich seems to be all or mostly about algorithms; software patents are also being granted and there's no denial of it, there's no sense of shame over it
EPO President António Campinos Speaks of “Greater Transparency,” But He's Even More Secretive Than Battistelli and He Lets Patent Quality Slip Further
The EPO is still becoming a laughable, corrupt, rogue institution where nepotism runs like water and patents are granted on nature in collaboration with the French/France-based Community Plant Variety Office (CPVR); As for António Campinos, he's looking more and more like Battistelli each and every week because there's only pretense of transparency or quality and everything is controlled entirely by one person
Lobbying and Blackmail Rewarded? JUVE Awards Team UPC Firm Bardehle Pagenberg, Which Represents Microsoft's Worst Patent Troll, Intellectual Ventures.
Firms that are advancing the agenda of malicious patent trolls from the US are being rewarded for it, even by publications which target jurists rather than just the litigation 'industry'
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On PTAB, Andrei Iancu is to the Patent Litigation Giants What Ajit Pai is to Big Telecom (Former Employers)
Iancu moves to the next phase of the entryism-esque ‘operation’; he further denies access to PTAB for the purpose of scrutinising wrongly-granted US patents (after fee hikes and other barriers failed to slow PTAB down) whilst also complaining about 35 U.S.C. § 101, which is not a problem at all and is widely supported by technology firms large and small
The EPO is Trying to Make Software Patents Look and Feel 'Healthy'
India’s loopholes for software patents aren’t too easy to exploit, unlike the EPO’s because of the management, which goes out of its way to make software patents in Europe really easy to attain
Microsoft's Largest Patent Troll, Operating Through Shell Entities, Broadens Extortion Campaign in Eastern Texas
Microsoft insists there's a "truce" but it forbade its workers from speaking about it and patent “assertion” activities (extortion and litigation) carry on unabated through notorious Microsoft proxies, including one run by a close friend of Bill Gates — all this while Microsoft is selling so-called ‘protection’ from them
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António Campinos Just a Quieter Version of Battistelli
Examiners slowly learn to accept that the new President is not the redemption promised by the Council when it basically rubber-stamped Battistelli’s choice and then made its Chairman, Dr. Ernst, inferior to Campinos (turning from 'boss' of Campinos into his assistant or 'lapdog' — a harrowing memory of the relationship between Battistelli and Kongstad)
The Litigation 'Industry' Pays the Media for 'Sponsored' (Paid-for) Articles That Sway Public Opinion on Patent Policy
The latest twists and spin in media owned by the patent microcosm and media that is simply being 'bought' by the patent microcosm to discredit the courts and prop up litigious 'ideals'
Battistelli and Team UPC Still Waiting for a Campinos Miracle
The UPC/UPCA remains stuck in the middle of nowhere, Bristows gleefully promotes patent trolls in the United Kingdom, and Team UPC in the UK perpetuates falsehoods while British blog IP Kat disseminates press releases for António Campinos, the 'new' Battistelli
EPO: Software Patents Are Allowed, Just Say 'AI' in the Patent Applications and We'll Compel Examiners to Grant
Lawlessness at the EPO persists and the EPC has long been abandoned; the EPO continues to make it very clear that patent quality is viewed as a nuisance rather than goal and even abstract software patents get enshrined as presumably valid monopolies on algorithms
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The Patent Microcosm is Trying to Derail Patent Reform and Make Iancu the 'American Battistelli'
Ongoing efforts to undo patent progress and install corrupt officials/judges have not ended; patent trolls would be the prime beneficiaries
Colleen Chien's New Paper Analyses the Basis for Invalidating Software Patents
Showing the impact of 35 U.S.C. § 101, based on "a treasure trove of data about 4.4 million office actions," Professor Colleen Chien and Jiun Ying Wu (Santa Clara University Law School) say "a relatively small share of office actions – 11% – actually contain 101 rejections" (contrary to myth)
Pretty Revealing That EPO Management Promotes Software Patents and IP Kat Promotes Patent Trolls
Rogue institutions like the EPO are dedicated to litigation rather than science and technology, having been captured by interests of Team UPC and law firms that are fronting for patent trolls
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Microsoft's Patent Troll Intellectual Ventures Still Suing Microsoft's Rivals, Microsoft Gags Its Staff Regarding Patent Matters
Microsoft says it's pursuing "truce"; the patent trolls it has created and backed (Bill Gates still backs them at a personal capacity) feel differently
The EPO Under António Campinos Has Opened More Doors to Software Patents and Only Litigators Are Happy
António Campinos continues Battistelli's tradition of shredding the Convention on the Grant of European Patents (EPC); it's all about generating as much assertion (e.g. litigation, shakedown) activity as possible, serving to bring Europe's productive industries to a halt
German Court on UPC Constitutional Complaint: “No Oral Hearing is Currently Scheduled. A Decision Date is Not Foreseeable at Present.”
More bad news for Team UPC as there's no sign of Germany signing/ratifying the UPCA and none of the underlying issues (noted in the complaint) have been addressed at all
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Lack of Patent Quality Means Lack of Patent Validity and Lack of Legal Certainty
35 U.S.C. § 101 at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) -- like the European Patent Convention (EPC) on the Grant of European Patents -- stresses patent quality and scope; will patent offices get things right before it's too late or too expensive to undo?
Data Engine Technologies (DET) Just One Among Many Microsoft-Connected Patent Trolls That Pick on Microsoft's Biggest Competitors
Lawyers' articles/blog posts continue to obscure the fact that Data Engine Technologies is merely a satellite or unit (one among many) of patent trolling giant Acacia Research Corp., connected to Microsoft and sporting a long history of lawsuits against GNU/Linux
Alice/Mayo and Hatch-Influenced US Patent Office
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) seems to be serving those who pay the most to define the scope or limits of patenting; this means that even nature and life are being 'privatised' (or turned into someone's "intellectual" property)
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