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Watchtroll a Fake News Site in Lobbying Mode and Attack Mode Against Those Who Don't Agree (Even PTAB and Judges)

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Summary: A look at some of the latest spin and the latest shaming courtesy of the patent microcosm, which behaves so poorly that one has to wonder if its objective is to alienate everyone

THE patent reform in the US (AIA, especially after Alice) brought us the blessing known as PTAB, which is responsible for the immediate and permanent elimination of many software patents and the reduction in litigation. It lowered confidence in even more of these software patents (potentially hundreds of thousands of patents).



""Idiotic", "impotence"... what next? Will Watchtroll accuse judges and PTAB of rape and pedophilia too?"PTAB continues to scare people who made a living from software patents (not software, just patents). With his habitual insults directed at PTAB, Gene Quinn (Watchtroll) continues to fling criticisms at PTAB, bemoaning the latest decision which he summarises with the word "idiotic" in the image (and IBM's patent chief actually boosts these people, who also attack judges! See the image at the top!).

"Idiotic", "impotence"... what next? Will Watchtroll accuse judges and PTAB of rape and pedophilia too? Frankly, these people are a lot more rude than anything we have ever seen and some of those people actually advertise themselves as professionals. "If a machine is patent ineligible bc it is an abstract idea," Watchtroll wrote in Twitter, "no point in keeping powder dry. The 101 fight is now."

He wants a "fight".

"Telling Watchtroll about software development is an exercise in futility; he doesn't even know how software works."Well, the Section 101 fight is over. The patent microcosm lost. Most software patents are dying and this is good because, as Benjamin Henrion put it in his reply, "patents also destroyed software development."

Telling Watchtroll about software development is an exercise in futility; he doesn't even know how software works. I debated this in length with him and then he chickened out, blocking me in Twitter.

Watchtroll (a front for the patent microcosm, not just one person) is now lobbying Trump to makes Patent Chaos Again (as expected, with lots more of this lobbying to come).

"These have included enabling the PTO to attack patent validity in a second window," says the article, "attacking classes of inventions such as software and medical diagnostics..."

"PTAB is a lot more professional because these financial incentives hardly exist, which makes their staff more objective."Nobody is "attacking" and there is no "fight". As we pointed out here before, the attorney known as Patent Buddy uses words like "survive", "kill" etc. rather than use terms that don't pertain to war. The people actually call PTAB a "death squad!" Picture that for a connotation.

Here is Patent Buddy saying about the above case: "In the MRI-101 Invalidation Decision, the PTAB Reversed the Examiner finding eligibility under 103, but not 101."

Examiners at USPTO have historically been rewarded to just award lots of patents, irrespective of quality or prior art (which can take a long time to assemble and study). PTAB is a lot more professional because these financial incentives hardly exist, which makes their staff more objective.

Earlier this week we found this lawyers' site claiming that "[t]he tide may be turning in the Section 101 landscape and it is making waves in the patent practice area." No, it's not. The patent microcosm lives in wonderland and only pays attention to a few CAFC decisions that suit their agenda. The article says that CAFC's "latest rulings on the issue—Enfish v. Microsoft Corp., BASCOM Global Internet Services v. AT&T Mobility, and McRO v. Bandai Namco Games America—possibly signal a new direction for patent eligibility in a post-Alice era. On the damages front, the U.S. Supreme Court grabbed headlines with its highly anticipated ruling in Samsung Electronics v. Apple, the first design patent case to be examined by the Court in over a century. Our panel of experts discussed these issues as well as patent trends on the horizon in 2017."

"There's no "win", it's not a game. It's also not a "war" or a "fight"."We actually debunked this just recently (December 27th), in relation to similar claims about CAFC cases. Less than a handful of cases (less than one hand's fingers) don't change years of patent invalidations, including by Judge Mayer, whom Watchtroll is insulting (see above again).

CAFC is soon going to decide whether challenging low-quality USPTO patents (through PTAB) is acceptable, says MIP, noting about a particular case that CAFC "has granted en banc rehearing in Wi-Fi One v Broadcom. The court will consider whether judicial review is available for a patent owner to challenge the USPTO’s determination that the petitioner satisfied the timeliness requirement governing the filing of IPR petitions" (these are the petitions that typically initiate invalidation by PTAB).

Regarding this new article from lawyers' media, one person wrote, "CAFC vs. PTAB decision discrepancies: Who wins?"

There's no "win", it's not a game. It's also not a "war" or a "fight". In fact, most of the time CAFC agrees with PTAB, so the framing of infighting is simply incorrect and inappropriate. To quote the actual article:

Apple Inc. has won at least a moral victory in a fight with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office over touchscreen technology.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit agreed with Apple on Tuesday that the patent office failed to sufficiently explain why Apple’s method for reconfiguring touchscreen icons is unpatentable due to obviousness.

Apple applied for a patent in 2009 on its method of using a sustained touch to activate an icon, which then allows a person to drag the icon to a new location on the screen. A patent examiner found the claim obvious in light of separate prior inventions on sustained touch and dragging. Combining the two inventions “would be an intuitive way” to rearrange touchscreen icons, the examiner concluded and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board affirmed.


This is just one of those exceptions where the CAFC does not fully agree with PTAB and wants the judgment reassessed.

The bottom line is, things are progressing in a positive direction as the US patent system persists in improving patent quality. It's well overdue. Here we have a new case which "focuses primarily on €§101 issues."

"The bottom line is, things are progressing in a positive direction as the US patent system persists in improving patent quality."To quote: "The oral argument of the week is MACROPOINT, LLC v. FOURKITES, INC., No. 2016-1286 (Fed. Cir. Dec. 8, 2016) decided by a Rule 36 judgment."

Those who claim that Section 101 is losing its potency or that CAFC is at war with PTAB or anything like that are being extremely dishonest and typically -- if not always -- they are the ones directly profiting from these misconceptions/distortions.

Watchtroll and its ilk need to go away or not be taken seriously. Time after time we have demonstrated that the site's purpose is to attack those who don't agree (even judges!) and sometimes to organise 'echo chamber' events so as/in which to lobby officials.

Watchtroll is to the patent world what Trump is to civilised politics.

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