PTAB
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is mostly known for inter partes reviews (IPRs), which help squash patents erroneously granted by the USPTO.
02.14.16 Patents Roundup: Software Patents, Patenting Loopholes, PTAB, Patent Trolls, and Software Patents Propagandists
02.29.16 After Alice, Patent Trial and Appeal Board is Invalidating Software Patents and Other Abstract Patents
03.08.16 The Federal Circuit, a So-called ‘Court’, Increasingly Refuted by US Courts and the Appeal Board (PTAB)
03.26.16 Patents Roundup: SCOTUS, U.S. Code § 101, CAFC, PTAB, and Software Patents in the Far East (Australia, Korea, Taiwan, China)
05.08.16 Patent Maximalists Are Afraid of — and Increasingly Obsessed With — PTAB’s Patent Invalidations (Inter Partes Reviews)
05.11.16 ES: Los Maximalistas de Patentes Están Asustados de — y Cada Vez Más Obsesionados Con — Las Invalidaciónes de PTAB (Revisiones Entre las Partes)
05.12.16 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Statistics and New Chief Judge Who is Really a Scientist
05.14.16 ES: Estadísticas del Tribunal de Juicio de Patentes y Jurado de Patentes (PTAB) y El Nuevo Juez Supremo Quién Realmente es un Científico
05.20.16 USPTO Ignores a Lot of Cases Against Software Patents to Justify Resumption of More Software Patenting
07.07.16 Invalidation of Bogus Patents (Software Patents and Other Abstract Patents) Peaking at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board
07.13.16 Fourth-Busiest Quarter for Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), Which Invalidates Software Patents That USPTO Foolishly or Selfishly Granted
07.16.16 The Importance of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and High-Quality Patents (Not Software Patents)
07.27.16 CAFC Meddling in PTAB Affairs; Unified Patents Fights a Good Fight by Invalidating Software Patents
08.02.16 Patent Lawyers Continue to Shoot the Messenger (Attack PTAB) in a Desperate Effort to Salvage Software Patents and Other Rubbish
08.16.16 The Patent Microcosm Hopes That the Originators of Software Patents Will Undermine the Patent Trial and Appeal Board
09.05.16 Patent System in the US Must Revert Back to Original Goals or Lose Credibility
09.18.16 Patent Trial and Appeal Board Under Attack by Law Firms, Which Will Soon Infiltrate It in the Form of ‘Bar Association’
10.02.16 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Under Persistent Attack From the Patent Microcosm
10.30.16 The Importance of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board Proven by the Fact That It’s Under Endless Attacks From the Patent Microcosm
11.19.16 Signs of Positive Progress: The Patent Trial and Appeal Board is Really Hurting Patent Parasites
11.28.16 Patents Roundup: Patent Trolls, Patent Quality, and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”)
12.10.16 The US Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Maintains High Pace of Patent Invalidation, in Spite of Appeals to CAFC
12.26.16 Culture of Appeals Against Granted Patents Means Better and Improved Scrutiny, Less Litigation
01.15.17 PTAB — Not Deterred by Courts — Continues to Invalidate a Lot of Software Patents
01.20.17 “Federal Circuit Had Affirmed on Every Issue in 77.4% of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board Appeals it Had Seen” in 2016
01.26.17 The United States Has Just Made It Even Harder to Appeal PTAB Decisions (Usually to Invalidate Software Patents)
02.06.17 PTAB Should Initiate Inter Partes Reviews (IPRs) of Universities’ Dubious Patents as Long as They Feed Patent Trolls
02.20.17 PTAB Petitioned to Help Against Patent Troll InfoGation Corp., Which Goes After Linux/Android OEMs in China
02.22.17 The Appeal Board (PTAB) and Federal Circuit (CAFC) Maintain Good Pace of Patent Elimination Where Scope Was Exceeded
02.26.17 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is Utilised in Fixing the US Patent System and the Patent Microcosm Loses Its Mind
03.05.17 PTAB and CAFC Crush Patents on Business Methods and Software, So Dennis Crouch Tries to Slow Them Down
04.02.17 Software Patents Under Unprecedented Invalidations Pace, Patent Maximalists Scramble to Reverse This Trend or Perception Thereof
04.06.17 At the Courts, Another Reminder of PTAB’s Importance and Ericsson’s War (via Patent Trolls) Against Linux and Android
04.10.17 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is Already Part of Reform (AIA), So Attempts to ‘Reform’ It May be Efforts to Appease Maximalists and Bullies
04.11.17 Demand/Petitions for Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Now at an All-Time High, Demonstrating Its Growing Necessity in the United States
04.11.17 Institutional Corruption in the US Patent System Leaves the Door Open to Meddling and Foul Play by the Patent Microcosm
04.16.17 Alice Decision and PTAB Are Both Constantly Under Attack From the Patent Microcosm and Its Lobbyists
04.21.17 Even Patent Bullies Like Microsoft and Facebook Find the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Useful
05.07.17 The Malicious Campaign to Slow Down or Cripple the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB)
05.14.17 The US Supreme Court Consults USPTO Director Michelle Lee Regarding the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Which is Invalidating Software Patents With CAFC’s Approval
06.25.17 The Supreme Court Can Reassert the Legitimacy of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Later This Year or Next Year
07.02.17 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is Under Attack From the Patent Microcosm, Which Wants It Not to Exist Anymore
07.16.17 In the Face of Malicious Lobbying, High Tech Inventors Alliance (HTIA) and Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) Protect PTAB
07.20.17 PTAB Persists and AIA Dominates in Spite of Smears and Bullying From Patent Extremists Including Watchtroll
07.29.17 The United States International Trade Commission is an Embargo-Loving Bully That Ignores Invalidation of Patents at Hand
08.09.17 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Continues to Invalidate Software Patents, Should Tackle Public Universities Too
08.12.17 Pro-PTAB Lobbying Leaves the Patent Microcosm Squirming, Lying
08.20.17 PTAB Crushes Software Patents and Patent Extremists Are Not Happy About It
08.23.17 Ahead of Supreme Court Decision, the Patent Microcosm is Trying to Scandalise PTAB
08.25.17 As Expected, Dennis Crouch Continues Spreading Myths and Falsehoods to Help Patent Trolls and Patent Extremists
08.29.17 Virtually the Whole Technology Sector Supports PTAB, But Dennis Crouch Supports Patent Trolls and Bullies Instead
08.30.17 Dennis Crouch, Joined by Gene Quinn (Watchtroll), Still Attacking PTAB to Protect Patent Trolls and Software Patents
09.02.17 Patently-O’s War on the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Continues
09.10.17 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is Still Being Smeared by Circles That Benefit From Low-Quality Patents
09.11.17 Latest Assaults on PTAB and More PTAB Bashing, This Time by Anticipat
09.17.17 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Under Attack by IBM and Other Patent Parasites Who Undermine Patent Quality
09.24.17 PTAB Supreme Court Case (Oil States) is a Case of Patent Parasites Versus the Producing Industry
10.04.17 Momentum of PTAB is Growing and Political/Industrial Support is Growing Too
10.05.17 PTAB Will Reach New Highs/All-Time Record This Year, Cleaning Up the Patent System by Throwing Away Invalid Patents
10.07.17 Gains for PTAB Supporters and Excuses From PTAB Opponents (the Litigation/Trolling ‘Industry’)
10.14.17 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Supported by Congress, a Federal Judge, Soon to be Supported by the Supreme Court Too?
10.18.17 In the Age of Alice and PTAB There is No Reason to Pursue Software Patents in the United States (Not Anymore)
10.21.17 US Patents Appeal Board Attacked by the Patent ‘Industry’, Defended by Federal Courts, and Dodged by Patent Trolls
10.29.17 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is Getting Stronger and the Litigation ‘Industry’ Hates It With a Passion
11.02.17 More High-Profile Briefs Explain to the US Supreme Court Why PTAB is Desirable and Must be Defended
11.07.17 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Under Attack by the Patent Trolls’ Lobby Ahead of Congressional Intervention
11.12.17 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Defends Firms From Bogus Patents and US Congress Hears About How PTAB Dodgers Misuse Immunity
11.15.17 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Defended by Technology Giants, by Small Companies, by US Congress and by Judges, So Why Does USPTO Make It Less Accessible?
11.19.17 PTAB is Safe, the Patent Extremists Just Try to Scandalise It Out of Sheer Desperation
11.22.17 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Foes Manipulate the Facts to Belittle the Impact of PTAB
11.26.17 Oral Arguments in Oil States Energy Services v Greene’s Energy Group (PTAB Case) Are About to Start
11.28.17 With Oil States Case Heard in the US Supreme Court, a New Justice’s (Neil Gorsuch) Positions on Patents Expressed
11.29.17 PTAB Will Survive the Supreme Court, Admit Even Foes of PTAB Based on This Week’s Hearings
12.05.17 PTAB, Which Invalidates Software Patents, is Still Under Attack Using Lies From Sites Like Patently-O
12.09.17 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board Will Endure Supreme Court Test and Overcome the Tribal Immunity “Scam”
12.12.17 PTAB Haters Fail to Guard Bogus Patents, But They Still Try
12.18.17 PTAB Helps Defend and Encourage Work by Actual Technology Companies in the US, the Patent Trolls’ Lobby is Upset
12.24.17 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Reaffirms USPTO Rejections of Abstract Patents/Applications ~83% of the Time
12.30.17 Judge Pauline Newman Sides With Microsoft in PTAB Petition (Case Appeal) Against Patents of a Company It’s Alleged to Have Copied
12.31.17 PTAB Update: Invalidations Carry on, Patents on Life Tackled, Patent Trolls Worry, and Allergan is in Trouble
01.03.18 2017 a Good Year for the US Appeal Board Dealing With Patents (PTAB): Another All-Time Record, Invalidating Low-Quality US Patents
01.07.18 PTAB Squashes Patent Trolls So the Patent Trolls’ Lobby is Attacking PTAB on a Daily Basis
01.09.18 Watchtroll is Where Information and Facts Come to Die in the Name of PTAB Bashing (Trolls’ Lobbying)
01.21.18 Software Patents Are Still Dropping Like Flies in 2018, Thanks to Alice v CLS Bank (SCOTUS, 2014) and Section 101 (USPTO)
01.24.18 PTAB Engages in Patent Justice, But Lobbyists of Patent Trolls Try to Blame PTAB for All the Problems of the US and Then Promote Iancu
01.29.18 Distortion of the Patent System Masked Behind Acronyms Like CAFC/PTAB and Foreign-Sounding Jargon Like Estoppel or Inter Partes Review (IPR)
01.30.18 St. Regis Mohawk Nation Now Exploited as a Lobby and an Attack Vector Against PTAB
02.04.18 The So-called ‘Big Pharma’ Industry is Hoping to Weaken If Not Eliminate PTAB
02.04.18 Statistics Show That Motions to Amend Patents Are Rarely Successful (No Second Chance for Bad Patents)
02.04.18 The Latest Attacks on PTAB Are Old News or Smears Recycled by Watchtroll et al.
02.04.18 PTAB’s Chief Judge David Ruschke Responds to the Smears From the Anti-PTAB Lobby
02.09.18 Joe Mullin Joins the EFF to Fight Mean Software Patents, Starting With Coverage About Unified Patents Defeating Sportbrain
02.11.18 Watchtroll’s PTAB Bashing Agenda Now Exploits ‘the Children’
02.11.18 As Andrei Iancu Takes Office (USPTO) Calls to Preserve PTAB Are Issued by Trade Groups of Technology Firms
02.11.18 Statistics About Patents in the US Are Encouraging as These Suggest Ongoing Improvements
02.17.18 The Patent Microcosm Takes Berkheimer v HP Out of Context to Pretend PTAB Disregards Fact-Finding Process
02.19.18 PTAB Continues to Invalidate a Lot of Software Patents and to Stop Patent Examiners From Issuing Them
02.25.18 PTAB Continues to Enforce Section 101 and New Paper From Christopher Walker and Melissa Wasserman Has Suggestions for Agency Head Review
02.26.18 With PTAB’s Growing Role in Assessing Patent Applications, Pursuing Software Patents is a Dangerous Gamble
02.27.18 Richard Epstein From a Koch-Funded Think Tank Attacks PTAB Because PTAB Squashes Weak Patents That Only Exist for Protectionism and Offense
02.27.18 As PTAB Continues to Squash a Lot of Low-Quality Patents the Koch-Funded Lobbyists Attack Its Very Existence
03.04.18 The Attacks on PTAB’s Legitimacy Are Slowing Down and § 101 Continues to be Applied by PTAB
03.05.18 In Spite of Attempts to Water Down 35 U.S.C. § 101 and Stop PTAB, Software Patents Keep Sinking in the United States
03.10.18 Watchtroll is Back to Attacking Judges of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Because It Can’t Tolerate Justice
03.15.18 PTAB Continues to Increase Capacity Ahead of Oil States; Patent Maximalists Utterly Upset
03.17.18 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Carries on Enforcing § 101, Invalidating Software Patents and Upsetting the Patent ‘Industry’ in the Process
03.18.18 PTAB Hatred is So Intense Among the Patent ‘Industry’ That Even Scammers Are Hailed as Champions If They Target PTAB
03.20.18 BIO, MDMA and PhRMA Are Pushing the PTAB-Hostile STRONGER Patents Act While IAM and Patently-O Continue to Bash PTAB
03.25.18 Where Opposition to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB, AIA) Has Come From Over the Past Week If Not Year
04.01.18 Watchtroll and Patent Docs Do Anything They Can to Undermine PTAB, Even Adopting and Defending a Patent “Scam”
04.03.18 Scam and Threat in the Mailbox Today, Courtesy of the Anti-PTAB Brigade
04.04.18 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Breaks More Records, This Time Number of Post-Grant Review Petitions
04.07.18 The Anti-PTAB Brigade is Willing to Embrace Radical Elements Just to Get Its Way
04.09.18 PTAB and the Federal Circuit (CAFC) Still Rejecting and Removing Dubious Patents
04.15.18 IAM, Patently-O and Watchtroll (the Patent Trolls’ Lobby) Try to Stop Patent Oppositions/Petitions (PTAB)
04.15.18 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is Ending Software Patents One Patent at a Time
04.23.18 The Good Work of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and the Latest Attempts to Undermine It
04.28.18 Patent Trolls Roundup: The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), Microsoft Trolls, and the Eastern District of Texas
05.08.18 Forward Pharma an Example of the Devastating Effect of Granting Patents in Error — A Problem Appeal Boards Must Correct
05.13.18 The Patent Microcosm is ‘Snookering’ Andrei Iancu on PTAB Deforms and Broadest Reasonable Interpretation (BRI), Amongst Other Things
05.13.18 The Supreme Court’s SAS Decision and the Race/Campaign to Undermine PTAB With Iancu’s Help
05.15.18 The Patent Microcosm is Still Looking for Ways to Bypass CAFC/PTAB Invalidation of Many US Patents
05.20.18 The Attacks on the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Have Lost Momentum and the Patent Microcosm Begrudgingly Gives Up
05.23.18 PTAB’s Latest Applications of 35 U.S.C. § 101 and Obviousness Tests to Void U.S. Patents
05.27.18 Another Week of Federal Circuit Supporting PTAB and Acting Tough for Patent Quality in the United States
06.03.18 The Patent Microcosm Keeps Attacking the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and Has the Audacity to Say PTAB is an ‘Attacker’
06.10.18 Instead of Smearing the Judges of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Check Why Abstract Patents Are Being Granted in the First Place
06.13.18 The United States is Far Better Off With the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), So Why Do Lawyers Attack It?
06.15.18 In the United States the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, Which Assures Patent Quality, is Still Being Smeared by Law Firms That Profit From Patent Maximalism, Lawsuits
06.18.18 Orrin Hatch, Sponsored the Most by the Pharmaceutical Industry, Tries to Make Its Patents Immune From Scrutiny (PTAB)
06.24.18 Even After SAS Institute, Inc. v Iancu (Decision on PTAB) There’s No Stopping the Crackdown on Bogus US Patents
07.01.18 The Patent Maximalists Are Losing the Battle Over PTAB/CAFC Policies/Caselaw, Resulting in Underhanded Tactics
07.07.18 In Motorola (MSI) v Hytera a Reminder That the ITC Does Not Honour PTAB
07.15.18 PTAB Defended by the EFF, the R Street Institute and CCIA as the Number of Petitions (IPRs) Continues to Grow
07.17.18 PTAB and § 101 (Section 101) Have Locked the Patent Parasites Out of the Patent System
07.29.18 Rebellion Against Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Inter Partes Reviews (IPRs) Comes From Patent Extremists, Demonstrating PTAB’s Success
08.05.18 The Anti-PTAB Lobby Still Predicting Doom and Gloom, as Usual, Despite PTAB’s Year-Over-Year Growth
08.07.18 PTAB Needs to Expand and Become More Accessible to More Challengers of Wrongly-Granted Patents
08.13.18 PTAB is Loathed by Patent Maximalists Because It Can Potentially Invalidate Thousands of Software Patents (More Than Courts Can Handle)
08.19.18 Alice/35 U.S.C. § 101 and PTAB Are Here to Stay and Even Their Critics (Patent Maximalists) Have Come to Accept That
08.26.18 PTAB Haters (the Patent Maximalists) Hope That SCOTUS Will Save Their Quality-Reducing Agenda
09.03.18 RALIA, Inventor Protection Act, STRONGER Patents Act and Other Attacks on PTAB (Because It Raises the Patent Bar)
09.16.18 Months After Oil States the Patent Maximalists Are Still Desperate to Crush PTAB in the Courts, Not Just in Congress and the Office
09.30.18 The Patent Trial and Appeals Board (PTAB) Continues to Lower the Number of Patent Lawsuits as More Allegations Get Tested at the Office Instead
10.08.18 In Spite of Campaigns Against It, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Squashes Software Patents by the Hundreds Per Month, Patent Maximalists Still Try to Stop It
11.15.18 Patent Maximalists Are Still Trying to Figure Out How to Stop PTAB or Prevent US Patent Quality From Ever Improving
11.25.18 Opponents of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), People Who Profit From Litigation, Accuse PTAB of Horrible Things to Stir up Imaginary ‘Controversies’
12.03.18 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Not Falling for Attempts to Prevent It From Instituting Challenges
12.11.18 Number of Filings at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Highest in Almost Two Years
09.01.15 Patents Roundup: IAM’s Claims About India, Lawyers’ Patent Bias, ITC for Microsoft, and PTAB Against Kyle Bass
03.10.16 Patents Roundup: Patent Trolls, Patent Reform, IAM’s Willful Ignorance, PTAB Paranoia, and Long Briefs
05.14.16 Rich People’s Media Fights § 101 (Against Software Patents) and PTAB Inter Partes Reviews Using Ridiculous Distortions of Statistics and Insults
06.11.16 Patent Lawyers Want a ‘Death Squad’ to Kill PTAB, Which Eliminates Software Patents at a Growing Pace
06.19.16 Jericho Systems Threatens Alice, Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Threatens the Patent Trial and Appeal (PTAB)
07.22.16 Patents Roundup: BlackBerry, Huawei, PTAB, GAO, Aggressive Universities With Patents, and Software Patents in Europe
08.05.16 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is Putting an End to Lots of Software Patents; Patent Microcosm Spins and Distracts From This
08.19.16 Patents Roundup: Trolls Dominate Litigation, PTAB Crushes Patents, Patent Box Regime Persists, and OIN Explains Itself
08.25.16 PTAB Emerges as Hero of USPTO Because Quality of Patents Improves, Software Patents Are Effectively Dead (or Dying Once Reassessed)
01.05.17 Watchtroll a Fake News Site in Lobbying Mode and Attack Mode Against Those Who Don’t Agree (Even PTAB and Judges)
01.11.17 Patent Quality in the United States Can Only be Assessed at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and the Courts
02.26.17 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and the Federal Circuit (CAFC) Take on Patents Pertaining to Business Methods
03.12.17 Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) Invalidates Yet More Software Patents, PTAB Carries on Invalidating Them Outside the Courts
04.05.17 Misleading (or Partial) Information About PTAB, CAFC, Software Patents, and Patent Trolls in EDTX
04.30.17 Alice">High Courts in the United States Still Neither Grappling/Interfering With PTAB Nor Overturning Alice
05.02.17 Alice, PTAB, and Patent Reform (AIA)">The Patent Microcosm Still Demonises Alice, PTAB, and Patent Reform (AIA)
07.09.17 Record Half for the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) at the End of June, Demonstrating Reform’s Success
07.16.17 Those Who Endlessly Attacked Michelle Lee Now Attack Supporters of PTAB, Not Just PTAB
07.25.17 Patent Troll Uniloc Lost a Software Patent Case Owing to PTAB, Microsoft-Connected Troll Finjan Holdings Keeps on Suing
08.03.17 PTAB/CAFC: Cleanup of Bogus Patents Carries On
08.04.17 The United States Supreme Court Should Further Restrict Patent Scope and Not Question PTAB’s Work (Which Merely Enforces That Scope)
08.08.17 The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Demonstrates the Value of PTAB in Squashing Software Patents
08.12.17 PTAB Crushes Another Patent Troll and Patently-O Scrambles to Defend the Trolls, Not the EFF
08.22.17 The Patent Microcosm is Pushing Hard to Weaken Alice and Revoke PTAB’s Authority Using an Upcoming Supreme Court Case
08.28.17 Further Scrutiny of Andrei Iancu Shows That He’s on Both Sides of Troll Battles and PTAB Battles
09.23.17 The Mohawk-PTAB Fiasco Threatens the Tribe’s Reputation More Than It Threatens PTAB
10.01.17 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is Still Defended by Technology Companies and Heckled by Those Who Tax Them
10.28.17 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and Federal Circuit Smash Another Software Patent of an Infamous Troll, Uniloc
10.29.17 AIPLA, Watchtroll (the Trolls’ Lobby) and Other Pressure Groups Are Still Trying to Eliminate/Weaken PTAB and Section 101
11.05.17 Support for PTAB is Growing and US Congress Will Tackle Native American Tribes’ Misuse of Immunity in Two Days
11.09.17 Apple v Samsung Dominates the News, But Samsung Has Just Taken on MPEG-LA Using PTAB Inter Partes Reviews
11.21.17 PTAB Inter Partes Reviews (“IPRs”) Are Essential in an Age When One Can Get Sued for Merely Mocking a Patent
11.26.17 Even PTAB Bashers Expect the US Supreme Court to Defend PTAB in Important Case Which Starts Later Today
12.02.17 In Oil States Case, Consensus on All Sides is That PTAB Will Endure
12.12.17 The End of Software Patents and PTAB’s Role in Enforcing That End
12.19.17 PTAB Bashing in the US and the Attack on the Boards of Appeal in Europe All About Lowering Patent Quality
01.04.18 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Makes Precedential a Decision on Patent Troll Skky LLC
01.14.18 PTAB is Being Demeaned, But Only by the Very Entities One Ought to Expect (Because They Hate Patent Justice/Quality)
01.21.18 IAM Together With Its Partner, IIPCC, is Lobbying the USPTO to Crush PTAB and Restore Patent Chaos
01.21.18 The Attacks on PTAB Are Slowing Down and Attempts to Shield Oneself From Inter Partes Reviews (IPRs) Are Failing
01.27.18 Somebody Should Explain to the Federal Circuit That GUIs are Not Inventions Because PTAB Already Knows It
01.28.18 The Anti-PTAB (Patent Trial and Appeal Board) Lobby is Partly Funded by the Koch Brothers and the Right Wing
02.04.18 Contrary to Claims From the Litigation ‘Industry’, AIA, PTAB, and the USPTO’s Inter Partes Reviews (IPRs) Make the US Better for Innovation
02.04.18 PTAB Watch: Paul Hastings’ Naveen Modi, Worlds Inc. and RPX on Trolls in Semiconductors Market (Rambus/Hardware Patents)
02.10.18 The Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) Speaks Out in Support of Patent Quality and AIA/PTAB in the United States
02.11.18 Big Oil Companies, Acting Through Conservative Think Tanks, Want to Sink PTAB
02.17.18 With Stambler v Mastercard, Patent Maximalists Are Hoping to Prop Up Software Patents and Damage PTAB
02.20.18 The Patent Trolls’ Lobby is Distorting the Record of CAFC on PTAB
02.24.18 Unified Patents, With Help From PTAB, Succeeds at Disarming Patent Trolls; InterDigital and RPX See a Massive Decline in Income
02.25.18 Allergan/Mohawk ‘Sovereign Immunity’ Patent Scam (Dodging PTAB) Backfires Spectacularly
02.26.18 Hype and Buzzwords Help Disguise Software Patents in the United States, But PTAB Discards Them Regardless
02.27.18 CAFC and PTAB Are Both Being Insulted by the Patent Maximalists, Who Resort to Offensive Cartoons and Lies
03.13.18 The Patent Trolls’ Lobby (IAM) Already Pressures Andrei Iancu, Inciting a USPTO Director Against PTAB
03.19.18 From PTAB Bashing to Federal Circuit (CAFC) Bashing: How the Patent ‘Industry’ Sells Software Patents
03.24.18 China’s Equivalent of PTAB and BoA, the Patent Reexamination Board (PRB), Can Confirm Some Chinese Patents Are of Low Quality
03.27.18 Oil States Decision is Approaching and So Does Strategic Smearing of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB)
03.31.18 Political Actions Against PTAB Are Still a Fringe Phenomenon and the Supreme Court’s Justices Are Unlikely to be Swayed/Persuaded by Such ‘Stunts’
03.31.18 The ITC Administrative Law Judges Continue to Do Bizarre Things About Expiring Patents, Including Cisco-Imposed Embargo on Competition Using Invalid (Rejected by PTAB) Patents
04.05.18 Oil States is a Lost Cause for Enemies of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB); Now They Push Droplets v Iancu Instead
04.17.18 SCOTUS on WesternGeco v Ion Geophysical Almost Done; Will Oil States Decision Affirm the PTAB’s Quality Assurance (IPRs) Soon?
04.19.18 The Patent Microcosm, Patent Trolls and Their Pressure Groups Incite a USPTO Director Against the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and Section 101/Alice
04.24.18 Quick Mention: As Expected, the US Supreme Court Cements PTAB’s Role With Trump-Appointed Gorsuch Dissenting
04.29.18 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Lives on and People Whom Patents Were Conceived for (Not Lawyers) Are Happy
04.29.18 35 U.S.C. § 101 is Still in Tact and Enforceable En Masse (Thousands of Times) by PTAB
05.01.18 One Week Later, as Expected, the Patent Trolls’ Lobby Continues to Moan About Oil States and Tries to Bring Another Challenge to PTAB (at the Supreme Court Level)
05.06.18 Alice/Section 101 and PTAB Continue to Eliminate Software Patents While Patent Lawyers Attempt to Distract From Oil States (US Supreme Court’s Decision)
05.13.18 CAFC is Under Attack by the Patent Microcosm, Whose Scrutiny is Starting to Resemble PTAB-Bashing
05.13.18 The Evil, Truly ‘Evil’ Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and the Courts Have the Audacity to Verify/Disprove Patent Validity
05.14.18 A Sham and a Scam: How Patent Extremists Continue to Promote a Mohawks and Allergan Ploy Against PTAB, Even After Oil States
05.15.18 The Anti-PTAB (Patent Quality), Anti-§ 101 Lobby is Losing Its Mind and It Has Become Amusing to Observe
05.28.18 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and Patent Reform (AIA) Generally Too Popular to Stop, But Patent Law Firms Helped by Andrei Iancu Keep Trying
06.05.18 Nationality and Sovereignty in AIA Era: Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Under Siege From Patent ‘Activists’
06.10.18 Growth in Petitions Against Questionable Patents (PTAB IPRs) and Patent Trolls’ Migration to China
06.12.18 PTAB Carries on Undeterred and Unabated, Courts Are Becoming Less Tolerant of Low-Quality Patents
07.01.18 PTAB Agrees With Patent Examiners on Rejections of Applications Based on Alice/Section 101, But Watch Out for the Spin
07.07.18 AIPLA, IPO and NYIPLA Lobby Against Section 101 and Thomas Massie Wants to Stop PTAB
07.10.18 The Demise of East Texan Courts and the Ascent of PTAB, Alice and a SCOTUS-Compliant CAFC May Mean That US Software Patents Are Officially ‘Dead’
07.10.18 Patent Trolls Rally/Advertise Thomas Massie’s Bill to Abolish PTAB and Promote Software Patents in the US
07.24.18 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is More Legitimate Than Ever Before, More So After the ‘Sovereign Immunity Scam’ Reaches Its Likely Final Stop
07.24.18 Watchtroll Reaffirms Its Hatred of Science and Technology, Continues to Attack the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB)
08.02.18 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and Federal Circuit (CAFC) Both Smeared (Judge-Bashing Tactics) for Correctly Applying Patent Law as They See Fit
08.06.18 Attributing Negligible Differences to Whatever Suits the Loudest Opponents of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB)
08.16.18 USPTO Craziness: Changing Rules to Punish PTAB Petitioners and Reward Microsoft for Corruption at ISO
08.18.18 David Ruschke, the PTAB’s Chief, is Moving So the Patent Maximalists Push Their Anti-PTAB Agenda
09.09.18 The Battle Over PTAB Determines the Fate of Patent Quality in the United States
09.12.18 Defending the World’s Most Notorious Patent Trolls in an Effort to Smear the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is an Utterly Poor Strategy
09.17.18 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Helps Prevent Frivolous Software Patent Lawsuits
10.16.18 Judge-Bashing Tactics, Undermining PTAB, and Iancu’s Warpath for the Litigation and Insurance ‘Industries’
10.26.18 On PTAB, Andrei Iancu is to the Patent Litigation Giants What Ajit Pai is to Big Telecom (Former Employers)
10.29.18 PTAB- And Court-Bashing USPTO Director Consistent With ‘Presidential’ Behaviour in Age of Donald Trump
10.30.18 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Judges Oughtn’t Attend Patent Lawyers’ Echo Chamber Events Like the AIPLA Annual Meeting
11.07.18 US Litigation Office: Former Judge From the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Leaves the Office as Another Litigator Enters as New Deputy Director
11.09.18 Stacked Panels of Front Groups Against PTAB and in Favour of Patents on Life/Nature
11.11.18 The Federal Circuit and PTAB Are Not Slowing Down; Patent Maximalists Claim It’s ‘Harassment’ to Question a Patent’s Validity
12.13.18 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Decisions Still Uncontroversial Unless One Asks the Patent Maximalists
06.13.13 A Big Blow to Patents on Software and Genetics in the United States, But Hardly the End
06.22.13 In the Age of Software Patents Nullification, CAFC Strikes Again, Promoting Those Patents
06.28.13 Corporate Debates About Patent Trolls Versus Debates About Patents (or Software Patents in Isolation)
07.14.13 US Patent System Utterly Broken and Threatens Expansion to Europe
11.10.14 Microsoft-Armed Patent Troll MOSAID (Now Conversant) Wants to Sweep up More Patents for Litigation
12.16.14 Bill Gates’ Pet Troll Intellectual Ventures is Collapsing as Founder Quits
04.12.15 Yes, Software Patents Are Dying, But Media Continues to Be Dominated by Those Denying it For a Salary
06.28.15 Proskauer Rose LLP is Cherry-Picking Cases to Make Software Patents Seem Eligible Despite Alice v. CLS Bank
08.21.15 Who’s Obsessing Over Patent Trolls in Latest ‘Reform’ Efforts? Larger Patent Trolls Such as Xerox
10.12.15 Many New Losses for Software Patents in the US, Courtesy of Alice Case/§101
11.07.15 Red Hat is Chastised For Playing Along With Microsoft’s Patent Scheme Rather Than Challenge the Patents Like Google and the Alice Case Did
11.10.15 Mozilla Follows Red Hat’s Misguided Strategy of Trying to Fight (Software) Patents With Patents Rather Than Invalidate Them
11.12.15 Trading Technologies is Stockpiling Software Patents, Surprised When These Are Challenged After Alice/§101
12.18.15 EPO Irrelevancy, Two Decades to be Granted an EPO Patent, Outrage Over Patents on Plants in EPO
12.21.15 The Forgotten History of IAM ‘Magazine’ as EPO Management’s Megaphone and EPO Union Basher
01.02.16 German and European Patent Attorney Warns That UPC Would Bring More Patent Trolls to Europe, With Help From the EPO
01.09.16 China-US Trade Wars With Patent Raids, Confiscations, Embargoes, and Low-quality Patent Stockpiling
01.14.16 USPTO Doubled the Number of Granted Patents in Just a Few Years, Demonstrating Very Sharp Decline in Patent Quality
01.26.16 The United States’ Patent System Lets Software Patents Rot, as Patent Trolls Take Over the System and Unrest Grows
02.04.16 The Siege Continues: Patent Lawyers Want More Patents, Including Software Patents, In Spite of Alice
02.06.16 VirnetX Case Against Apple Shows Not the Problem With Patent Trolls But With Software Patents
02.23.16 Apple May be Forced to Convince the Supreme Court That It is Entitled to Money That Android Companies Have Been Making
02.25.16 Patents Roundup: Proxy Lawsuits, SCOTUS on Software Patents, Reform Agenda, and Lawyers Bypassing Alice
02.25.16 Apple Puede Ser Obligada a Convencer a la Corte Suprema de que Tiene “Derecho” Al Dinero que las Compañías de Android han Estado Ganando
03.01.16 The Horrible State of the US Patent System With Its Infamous Software Patents and the Latest Deception From Patent Lawyers-Dominated Media
03.07.16 Software Patents Are a Dying Breed in the United States and the EPO Should Take Notice
03.14.16 Rodeo de Patentes: Trolls de Patentes, Reforma de Patentes, Ignorancia Voluntaria de IAM, Paranoia de PTB y Bragas Largas
03.15.16 Patents Roundup: SCOTUS, CAFC, and Software Patents
03.18.16 Redondeo de Patentes: SCOTUS, CAFC, y Patentes de Software
03.24.16 Software Patents in the US — When Properly Challenged in an Age of Extreme USPTO Leniency — Simply Die
03.28.16 Patentes de Software en los US – Cuando son Propiamente Desafíadase en una Era de Extrema Leniencia de la USPTO – Simplemente Mueren
03.30.16 Hope at the End of the Tunnel as More Software Patents Are Squashed in the US
04.02.16 USPTO Still a Fine Mess, ITC Restricted as Sanctions/Embargo Enforcer
04.02.16 Esperanza al Final del Tunel Mientras que Más Patentes de Software Son Aplastadas en los Estados Unidos
04.02.16 Software Patents in the United States as Explored in Light of Some of the Latest Cases
04.05.16 Abolish the Supreme Court and Congressional Take on Patents, Says David Kappos, Just Listen to Mr. Kappos and Reinforce Software Patents
04.06.16 Abolir la Corte Suprema y la Toma del Congreso en Patentes, Dice David Kappos, Sólo Escuchen a Mr. Kappos y Refuerzen Las Patentes de Software
04.07.16 US Patent Trolls Epidemic and Microsoft/Intellectual Ventures’ Latest Contribution to That
04.08.16 Epidemia de Trolles de Patentes en los EE.UU. La Última Contribución a ello de Microsoft/Intellectual Ventures
04.12.16 European Patent Lawyers Who Conveniently Promote Software Patents in Spite of the Rules and the EPC
04.13.16 New Software Patents From Google, Microsoft and Apple, Plus New Lobbying From David Kappos (Paid by Microsoft and Apple)
04.13.16 Patent Fights Over Reform Focus (Marginalising Small Actors), Courts (Judges) Versus Patent Offices (Large Businesses)
04.15.16 Nuevas Patentes de Software de Google, Microsoft y Apple, Más Cabildeo de David Kappos (Financiado por Microsoft y Apple)
04.19.16 Software Patents Decreasingly a Threat in the United States, But IBM and Microsoft Lobby for a Rebound
04.20.16 Corporate Lobbying for Software Patents in the United States and Against Alice, Against Patent Reform
04.24.16 New Microsoft-Funded Push to Make Software Patents Stronger in the US, Backed by the Usual Suspects as Microsoft Increasingly Struggles as a Producing Company
04.26.16 ES: El Nuevo Impulso Finánciado por Microsoft Para Reforzar las Patentes de Software en los EE.UU., Apoyado por los Sospechosos Usuales (La Sagrada Familia) Mientras que Microsoft Cada Vez Más Lucha Como Compañíá Productiva
04.26.16 A Farce of a System: How SIPO, USPTO, and Increasingly the EPO Too Turn Into Filing Systems (No Proper Examination/Filtering Required)
04.27.16 ES: Una Fársa de Sistema: ¿Cómo la SIPO, USPTO, y cada vez más la EPO se Convierten en Llenado de Patentes (No Se Requiere Propia Examinación)
04.29.16 Australia Might be Next to Block Software Patents If Commission’s Advice is Followed
04.30.16 Alice Continues to Smash Software Patents So Patent Lawyers, Monopolists’ Lobbyists Etc. Now Attack the Supreme Court for Doing This
05.01.16 ES: Alice Continúa Quebrando Patentes de Software Asi Que los Abogados de Patentes, Cabilderos de los Monopolistas, Etc. Ahora Atacan a la Corte Suprema por Hacer Esto
05.01.16 The US Patent System: Where One Wastes Years in Court and Spends $8,000,000 in Lawyers’ Fees Fighting a Bogus Patent
05.02.16 ES: El Sistema de Patentes de los EE.UU: Donde Uno Desperdicia Años en Corte y Gasta $8,000,000 en Honorarios de Abogados Peleándo una Patente Falsa
05.05.16 IBM Comes Under Growing Scrutiny for Increasingly Acting Just Like a Patent Troll Amid Layoffs
05.10.16 A Soup of UPC Lies Courtesy of the EPO, Patent Lawyers, and Large Clients (Like Multinational Corporations)
05.11.16 ES: La UPC: Una Sopa de Mentiras Cortesía de la EPO, Abogados de Patentes, y Grandes Clientes (Como Corporaciónes Multinaciónales)
05.15.16 With Software Patents Abound, Free/Open Source Software Loses, Patent Lawyers Gain
05.16.16 UPC an Attack Not Only on the European Public But Also on Staff of the EPO
05.17.16 ES: Al Abundar Patentes de Sofware, Free/Open Source Software Pierde, Mientras que los Abogados de Patentes Ganan Más que Nadie
05.18.16 ES: La UPC un Ataque No Sólo Contra el Público Europeo Pero También Contra los Empleados de la EPO
05.31.16 Patents Roundup: When the Patent Systems Turn Against People and Adjust According to Patent Lawyers and Their Largest Clients
05.31.16 Microsoft’s Former Chief Patent Counsel Praises Elevation of Software Patents in Microsoft Case, Adds to Cherry-Picking and Lobbying by Patent Lawyers
06.06.16 Media Sites Still Filled to the Rim With Pro-Software Patents Propaganda (Lies by Omission)
06.14.16 Enfish Case Has Not Salvaged Software Patents in the US, Proponents of Software Patents Admit
06.14.16 The Continued Collapse of Software Patents in the US, No Matter What Patent Lawyers Say
06.19.16 How the Halo Electronics Case Helps Patent Trolls and How Publications Funded by Patent Trolls (IAM for Instance) Covered This
06.19.16 Patent Lawyers’ Fantasy Land Where Software Patents Are Suddenly Resurrected Even When They’re Not
06.21.16 Supreme Court on Cuozzo v Lee Another Major Loss for Software Patents in the United States
06.23.16 Patent Lawyers Love (and Amplify) Halo and Enfish, Omit or Dismiss Cuozzo and Alice
06.26.16 Patents Roundup: Bad Quality (USPTO), Bad Analysis (India), Bad Microsoft, Bad Actors (Trolls), Bad Scope (Software Patents), and the Ugly
07.01.16 Great News: The US Supreme Court Shoots Down Software Patents Again
07.02.16 Cuozzo Case Summarised, Immersion Corp. v HTC Corp. to Remain Negligible Unless it Too Reaches SCOTUS
07.05.16 Signs of Progress: Overly Litigious US Patent System Calms Down a Bit, Reform Upsets Megacorporations
07.07.16 ~90% of Technology Patent Lawsuits Are Patent Trolls-Related, Show New Figures
07.17.16 The Impotence of Gene Quinn
07.22.16 Glimpse at Patent Systems Across the World: Better Quality Control at the USPTO Post-America Invents Act (2011), Unlike the EPO Post-Battistelli (2010)
07.24.16 The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) Comes Across as Against Software Patents, Relates to the EPO as Well
07.30.16 Continued Erosion of Software Patents in the US and With It a Demise in Abusive Litigation by Patent Trolls
07.30.16 EPO Crushed the Boards of Appeal (i.e. Quality Control) and Insiders Explain Why
08.01.16 The USPTO’s Dark Legacy of Software Patents Still the Cause of Spurious/Frivolous Litigation, Residue Which is Software Patent Trolls and Lawyers Will Try to Change the Law
08.04.16 Multimedia Software Patents Declared Invalid in the United States
08.05.16 The USPTO and Legal System Are Tightening Patent Scope, Which Means Virtually No Software Patents Anymore
08.14.16 The Patent Microcosm is Panicking and Spinning Alice/§ 101 Because US Software Patents Are Still Dying
08.18.16 The End of an Era at the USPTO as Battistelli-Like (EPO) Granting Policies Are Over
08.26.16 Erosion of Patent Quality Enables Patent Extortion With Large Portfolios of Low Validity Rate
08.28.16 The United States Has Gotten Over Software Patents
09.01.16 A Post-Alice Reality (World Without Software Patents) Takes Its Toll on the Patent Microcosm in the United States
09.08.16 Software Patents Deathwatch: Panic in the Patent Microcosm as “Since Alice, the Reject Rate for Patents for Payment Technologies is Above 90 Percent.”
09.11.16 The Patent Microcosm is Losing the Fight Over Software Patenting and Now It Plays Dirty
09.13.16 The Pack of Hyenas Promotes Software Patents in the US by Shaming and Mocking Those Doing Their Job Post-Alice
09.15.16 Battistelli is Lying About Patent Quality While It Continues to Nosedive at the EPO as Part of His Neo-liberal ‘Production’ Strategy
09.18.16 After McRO v Namco Case (at CAFC) the Patent Microcosm Works Overtime to Produce Pro-Software Patents Propaganda, Smear the Supreme Court
09.18.16 Poor Quality Control at the US Patent Office Gives Birth to ‘Unpatent’ and Gives a Voice to Critics
09.19.16 Patents Roundup: Disclosure Requirements, Mobile Patents, Patent Lawyers’ Plagiarism, USPTO Getting Sued, and Corporate Domination of the Patent System
09.21.16 The Patent Law Firms in the US Relentlessly Lobby for Software Patents Resurgence by Placing Emphasis Only on Rare Outcomes
09.22.16 Patent Law Firms, David Kappos, and IAM ‘Magazine’ Still Shelter Software Patents by Cherry-Picking and Lobbying
09.25.16 Software Patents Propped Up by Patent Law Firms That Are Lying, Further Assisted by Rogue Elements Like David Kappos and Randall Rader (Revolving Doors)
09.25.16 Patents Roundup: Accenture Software Patents, Patent Troll Against Apple, Willful Infringements, and Apple Against a Software Patent
09.27.16 Beware the Patent Law Firms Insinuating That Software Patents Are Back Because of McRO
10.02.16 With Patent Law Firms Like These, No Wonder There’s Distrust and Animosity
10.02.16 Several Software Patents of Microsoft’s Patent Troll Intellectual Ventures Have Just Been Trashed by the Federal Circuit, But Patent Law Firms Keep Quiet About It
10.02.16 When British Companies Get Dragged Into Texan Courts Over Software Patents That Aren’t Even Valid in Britain
10.03.16 Software Patents Are Against the First Amendment, Rules a CAFC Judge in Historic Decision That is Another Nail in the Software Patents Coffin
10.10.16 Towards the End of Software Patents in the United States
10.31.16 The World Comes Tumbling Down for Software Patents and Patent Trolls
10.31.16 The Insane World of Patent Maximalism and Professor Joshua Pearce’s Case for Weakening Patent Rights
11.07.16 Microsoft’s Evil Patent Agenda, Issues Pertaining to Patent Scope, and the Mass Invalidation of Software Patents in the US
11.13.16 The Fall of Software Patents Continues, But Should Not be Taken for Granted
11.19.16 Software Patents Are Effectively Dead in the US, But You Wouldn’t Know This If You Relied on Patent Law Firms’ ‘Advice’
11.22.16 Microsoft Loves Linux Patent Tax
11.29.16 Learning From the Mistakes of the US Patent System (and More Latterly China) When Assessing Patent Maximalism
12.04.16 Software Patents Continue Their Invalidation Process, But Patent Law Firms Try to Deny This in Order to Attract Misinformed (or Poorly-Informed) Clients
12.04.16 Patent Trolls of Microsoft and Ericsson Are Trying to Tax Everything, Especially Linux Devices
12.05.16 Microsoft’s Push for Software Patents Another Reminder That There is No ‘New’ Microsoft
12.06.16 In Historic Blow to Design Patents, Apple Loses to Samsung at the Supreme Court
12.06.16 Lobbying Disguised as ‘Reporting’ by the Patent Microcosm, Which Wants More Patents and More Lawsuits (Lawyers Needed)
12.14.16 Administrative Council of the EPO Must Recognise Critical Brain Drain, Loss of Talent, Loss of Patent Quality
12.14.16 Institutional Corruption Like ‘Pay to Play’ Still Drives/Steers US Patent Law, Courtesy of Large Corporations and Their Lobbyists
12.18.16 Hijacking the Dialogue: How Patent Law Firms Distort the Record on Software Patents in the United States
12.21.16 “China” is to Watchtroll (and the Bucket of Patent Maximalists) What “Russia” is to Clinton and DNC
12.26.16 With the Demise of Software Patents and Likely Soon Patent Trolls (Based on SCOTUS), Trump Appointments Matter Even More
12.29.16 Software Patents Continue to Collapse, But IBM, Watchtroll and David Kappos Continue to Deny and Antagonise It
01.03.17 New Article From Heise Explains Erosion of Patent Quality at the European Patent Office (EPO)
01.07.17 Eight Wireless Patents Have Just Been Invalidated Under Section 101 (Alice), But Don’t Expect the Patent Microcosm to Cover This News
01.08.17 Update on Patent Trolls and Their Enablers: IAM, Fortress, Inventergy, Nokia, MOSAID/Conversant, Microsoft, Intellectual Ventures, Faraday Future, A*STAR, GPNE, AlphaCap Ventures, and TC Heartland
01.11.17 The Patent Microcosm is Already Sucking up to Donald Trump in an Effort to Enrich Itself at Everyone’s Expense
01.12.17 Software Patents Still Promoted by IBM and Its Lobbyist (and Former Employee) David Kappos, in Defiance of Much-Needed US Patent Reform
01.12.17 Patent Trolls and Software Patents: CloudTrade, Patent Practitioners Density, and Via Licensing
01.15.17 Number of New Patent Cases in the US Fell 25% Last Year, Thanks in Part to the Demise of Software Patent Trolls
01.15.17 America Invents Act Improved Patent Quality, But Right Wingers Threaten to Make It Worse Again
01.16.17 Independent and Untainted Web Sites About Patents Are Still Few and Rare
01.20.17 In an Age of Necessary Patent Reform and Permanent Uncertainty for Software Patents the Patent Microcosm Looks for Workarounds and Spin
01.20.17 Watchtroll and His Swamp Still Blame Google (Where Michelle Lee Came From) for Improving and Gradually Fixing Aspects of the US Patent System
01.23.17 Patent Trolls Like Finjan Holdings and Thomas Edison; the Latest Loss for Software Patents in the US and Their Move to China
01.24.17 The Ugly Face of Watchtroll: Attacking the Director of the US Patent Office, Calling on Trump to Sack Her
01.24.17 US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) Keeps Introducing Changes to Patent Law and Patent Policy Under the Trump Administration Still Looks OK
01.28.17 An Unexpected Reality: The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Emerged as a Champion in Fighting Software Patents in the US
01.28.17 Good Luck to Apple in Its Fight Against Qualcomm’s Patents (Some of Them Software Patents), Not Just Against Nokia
02.01.17 Someone Needs to Explain/Remind EPO Management That Software Patents Are Not (Supposed to Be) Valid in Europe
02.06.17 Questions Arise About Patent Policy and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board Amid Deregulation by Trump
02.07.17 The Debate About Software Patents Grew Increasingly Dishonest, Front Groups AIPLA, PhRMA and ABA Try to Restore Them
02.13.17 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board Breaks Its All-Time Records, Revealing Continued Improvement of Patent Quality
02.14.17 Microsoft Has Not Managed to Blackmail Huawei Over Android and GNU/Linux, But Its Trolls/Satellites Are Trying
02.15.17 National Law Journal Believes That Gorsuch as Supreme Court Justice Would be Opponent of Patent Reform
02.16.17 New Survey Reveals That High Patent Quality, or Elimination of Bad Patents, is Desirable to Patent Holders
02.17.17 Technicolor, Having Turned Into a Patent Troll, Attacks Android/Tizen/Linux With Patents in Europe
02.19.17 Patent Misconceptions Promoted by the Patent Meta-Industry
02.21.17 Inverting Narratives: IAM ‘Magazine’ Paints Massive Patent Bully Microsoft (Preying on the Weak) as a Defender of the Powerless
02.28.17 Does the EPO Want Patent Quality to Decline Against the USPTO and Become Akin to SIPO?
02.28.17 Yes, Michelle Lee is Still in Charge of the US Patent Office, in Spite of the Patent Microcosm’s Endless Attacks on Her
03.02.17 The Latest Three Stories Which Show Why the US Supreme Court Must Stop Patent Trolls
03.04.17 Canada Does Not Permit Software Patents, So Its Notorious Patent Trolls Go Abroad for Legal Action
03.04.17 Using “China!” and Distortion of Data From Lex Machina, the Litigation Lobby Promotes Software Patents
03.05.17 Positive Signs After Alice: Software Patents Still Invalidated in Bulk, Eastern District of Texas Down for the Count, and Michelle Lee Stays
03.12.17 The Patent Microcosm is Lobbying by Shaming, Typically for Patent Maximalism in the United States and Elsewhere
03.14.17 Patent Trolling Allegedly Runs in the Blood (or Interests) of the Trump Family, in Spite of the USPTO’s and Courts’ Growing Hostility Towards Patent Trolls
03.15.17 More Good News About the US Patent System Crushing Software Patents While the Reformer, Michelle Lee, Stays
03.16.17 A Fight Over Patent Quality in the United States
03.20.17 Battistelli’s EPO Copies China — Not the US — When it Comes to Patenting Software and Expanding Patent Scope
03.21.17 In the US Patent System, Evolved Tricks for Bypassing Invalidations of Software Patents and Getting Them Granted by the USPTO
03.25.17 Depressing EPO News: Attacks on Staff, Attacks on Life, Brain Drain, Patents on Life, Patent Trolls Come to Germany, and Spain Being Misled
03.25.17 It Certainly Looks Like Microsoft is Already Siccing Its Patent Trolls, Including Intellectual Ventures, on Companies That Use Linux (Until They Pay ‘Protection’ Money)
03.28.17 Another Likely Casualty of the Battistelli Regime at the EPO: Validity of Decisions of Terrified Boards of Appeal Judges
04.01.17 Watchtroll, IAM, and the Plot to Overthrow Patent Reformer at the USPTO in Order to Make Litigation (and Trolls) Great Again
04.01.17 Small Business Innovation Protection Act (SBIPA) Regarding the US Small Business Administration (SBA) Wrong Solution to the Wrong Problem
04.04.17 Patent Trolls in the Headlines: TC Heartland, University of Florida, Hilco, and Uniloc
04.05.17 Patent Attacks on GNU/Linux Devices, Courtesy of Philips, Ericsson, Microsoft and Its Patent Trolls
04.11.17 Software Patents Lobbying Sites Are Really Desperate to Oust the Director of the Patent Office
04.12.17 Abundance of Patents is Not the Goal, Quality of Patents is the Goal
04.13.17 USPTO Director Michelle Lee is Already Reducing Litigation and Saving Lives
04.17.17 Patents Roundup: Microsoft, Embargo, Tax Evasion, Surveillance, and Censorship
04.19.17 Patents on Business Methods and Software Are Collapsing, But the Patent Microcosm is Working Hard to Change That
04.21.17 In Spite of Lobbying and Endless Attempts by the Patent Microcosm, US Supreme Court Won’t Consider Any Software Patent Cases Anymore (in the Foreseeable Future)
04.27.17 China’s Suffering From Patent Maximalism Has Europe Forewarned
04.29.17 RecogniCorp v Nintendo is Another Nail in the Coffin of Software Patents in the United States
05.02.17 The Patent Microcosm and Its Ludicrous New Narrative/Tale That Patent Reform is a Plot of Large Corporations
05.07.17 How the Invalidation of Software Patents Has Helped Victims of Patent Trolls
05.14.17 OIN is Still a Distraction Unless We Want GNU/Linux to Coexist With Software Patents (Rather Than Eliminate Those)
05.14.17 3 Years After the Alice Case at the Supreme Court the Plague of Software Patents is Easier to Cope With
05.27.17 The United States Has Already Tackled Both Software Patents and Patent Trolls
06.11.17 No More Battistelli Photo Ops With Michelle Lee as EPO Allies Run Out, Countries Without European Patents Pursued Instead
06.22.17 Emerging Threat to Patent Reforms at the USPTO
06.24.17 Microsoft and Bill Gates Become More Actively Involved in Their Biggest Patent Troll (and World’s Biggest Troll), Intellectual Ventures
06.25.17 The US Patent Office (USPTO) Should Now be Headed by Drew Hirshfeld, a Patent Examiner Who Rose to the Top, Not a Lawyer Like Joseph Matal
07.02.17 Microsoft’s Troll Intellectual Ventures, via Dominion Harbor, Goes Patent-Trolling in China
07.02.17 The Decline in Patent Quality at the European Patent Office (EPO) Already Causes Mass Abandonment of Patents
07.05.17 Cloud Trolls Are Clouding Their Software Patents in the “Cloud Computing” Buzzword
07.08.17 ‘Trolling’ by the University of Florida, the University of California and the California Institute of Technology
07.09.17 Supreme Court Saves the Day as Latest Statistics Reveal Slump in Patent Litigation (Mostly Trolls) in the Eastern District of Texas
07.10.17 Lobbying Against the US Supreme Court’s Landmark Decision (Alice) by Bristows, IBM, David Kappos, IPO, ABA, AIPLA, Adam Mossoff and Kevin Madigan
07.15.17 Amazon is Stockpiling Terrible Patents and Using These for Competitive Advantage
07.16.17 Immersion, FitBit, Jawbone, and Creative Chose to be a Pile of Patents Rather Than Real Companies
07.16.17 After the ‘Fall’ of Texas, Patent Trolls Struggle and Some Are on the Retreat
07.16.17 Weakening of Patents Assigned to Google and Another New Patent Lawsuit Against Uber
07.17.17 Anti-Patent Trolls Reform in the US Evolves Nicely and Rogue Judges Get Named, Shamed
07.20.17 The Bizarre World of US Patents and Ongoing Pursuit/Granting of Software Patents in Spite of Section 101
07.23.17 Alice/U.S.C. § 101 is a Done Deal, Meaning Software Patents Are Effectively Dead in the US
07.25.17 In 2017 Software Patents Are Barely Valid in the United States
07.26.17 The Patent Microcosm Tries to Persuade the Headless USPTO to Crush Alice
07.27.17 The USPTO Report on Section 101 is Somewhat Farcical as Input Comes From the Patent Microcosm, Not Producing Companies
07.29.17 Anonymous Comments Discuss Erosion of Lawful Activity at the EPO, Lowered Patent Quality, Software Patents, and Trump Comparisons
08.02.17 To Save Face, USPTO Ought to Stop Granting Software Patents Altogether
08.04.17 Software Patents Are Not Potent in Courts and Are Not Good for Marketing Purposes Either (They Cause Alienation)
08.06.17 Patents in the US Are Becoming Stronger (Better Quality), But the Patent ‘Industry’ is Trying to Change That
08.12.17 The Latest Evidence of the Demise of Software Patents in the United States
08.13.17 Software Patents Help Neither Software Developers Nor Society in General. It’s Time to Bury Them All.
08.15.17 ‘US Inventor’ is an Extremist Group Created by Watchtroll (Not Inventors) to Troll the USPTO for Patent Maximalism
08.17.17 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board Squashes Many Software Patents (Abstract) and §101 Seems Safe From Lobbying by the Patent Microcosm
08.20.17 The Notorious 1-Click Buying Patent Expired Rather Than Invalidated
08.22.17 News About Patents Dominated by Patent Trolls/Aggressors, Their Press Releases, and Sympathisers
08.23.17 Benoît Battistelli’s Misbehaviour Condemned the UPC to Death
08.27.17 Post-Alice § 101 Eliminates Most Software Patents, But Amid Heavy Lobbying § 101 is Not Secured
08.30.17 Australian Government Cracks Down on Patent Maximalism, Dealing a Blow to Parasitic Firms
08.31.17 Trump’s USPTO Nominee is a Supporter of Software Patents
09.02.17 Kaspersky Labs Showed How to Battle Software Patent Trolls
09.03.17 Media Hostility Towards Patent Reform in the US, Software Patents on the Chopping Block
09.03.17 CCIA Chastises ITC for Allowing Embargo Based on Invalid Patents of Cisco
09.06.17 “Software Patents Are Evil,” But the Patent Microcosm Keeps Attacking the US Legal System for Disallowing These
09.06.17 Juve Reveals That Ingve Stjerna is the ‘UPC Slayer’ While the EPO Continues to Lobby, Mislead
09.10.17 Worse Than Trolls: Amazon’s Software Patents (and Other Large Companies’ Ridiculous Monopolies)
09.10.17 Alice Remains Strong and Potent in Opposing Software Patents, But the Patent ‘Industry’ Never Rests
09.11.17 Upcoming EPO Series: Benoît Battistelli’s ‘Club Med’
09.12.17 Patent Maximalism Duo: Watchtroll and Patently-O Now Conjoined and Mutually Referencing One Another
09.15.17 The UPC Fantasy is Going Nowhere as Complaints and Paperwork Pile Up
09.17.17 Why the Mohawk Tribe Should Fire Its Lawyers and Dump the Patents Which Now Tarnish Its Name
09.17.17 Microsoft is Promoting Software Patents in India in Another Effort to Undermine Free/Open Source Software, Microsoft-Connected Trolls Are Still Suing
09.21.17 The Latest Lies About the Unitary Patent (UPC) and CIPO’s Participation in Those
09.21.17 USPTO Starts Discriminating Against Poor People, and Does So Even When They Rightly Point Out Errors
09.24.17 Fake News About Software Patents in the United States
09.30.17 How Tribes in America Have Fallen for a “Scam” That Now Facilitates Patent Trolls
10.01.17 Buzzwords Are Used to Patent Software in the US, Courts Continue to Reject These, and Alice is Secure
10.02.17 The Software Patents/Litigation Industry is Dying in the United States and China Takes This Heavy Burden
10.05.17 “Cloud”, “AI”, and “IoT” Among the Buzzwords Used to Bypass Limitations/Bans on Software Patents
10.05.17 Misuse of Tribal ‘Immunity’ for Patent Trolling Has Just Come Under a Congressional Probe
10.05.17 Number of Patent Cases in the Eastern District of Texas Has Dropped by an Astounding Rate in Just a Few Months
10.08.17 Patent Microcosm, Patent Media and Patent Office: “It’s a Big Club and You Ain’t in It”
10.10.17 US Congress Will Likely Stop Native American Tribes From Helping Patent Trolls by Misusing Sovereign Immunity
10.15.17 Software Patents and Patent Trolls Not a Solved Issue, But the US is Getting There
10.16.17 Another Misleading Article Regarding Patents From Rana Foroohar at the Financial Times
10.17.17 Judge Bryson Rules Against Allergan After It Used Native American Tribes to Dodge Scrutiny of Patents (IPRs); Senator Hatch Does Not Understand IPRs
10.17.17 The Federal Circuit Continues Squashing Software Patents
10.19.17 Some of the USPTO’s Most Ridiculous Patents Are Scrutinised by “Above the Law” While Dennis Crouch Attempts to Tarnish Alice
10.21.17 In the United States, the Patent ‘Industry’ is a Dying Breed and China Adopts This Destructive Force
10.28.17 Patent Trolls’ Enablers Celebrate and Lobby for Patents on Software, React in Fury When Google Gets Some
10.28.17 Big News if True: USPTO to Stop Issuing Software Patents Altogether (Citing Section 101)
10.29.17 Software Patents Purely for Marketing Purposes in an Age When These Aren’t Enforceable Anyway
11.01.17 Large Technology Groups Explain to the Supreme Court Why the Patent Trials and Appeal Board is Important
11.07.17 Broader Acceptance in the United States That Software Patents Are Worthless, But Element Data Has Just Paid for Some
11.14.17 Patents Roundup: Packet Intelligence, B.E. Technology, Violin, and Square
11.18.17 EFF and CCIA Use Docket Navigator and Lex Machina to Identify ‘Stupid Patents’ (Usually Software Patents That Are Not Valid)
11.19.17 The Lobbyists Are Trying to Subvert US Law in Favour of Patent Predators
11.20.17 “US Inventor” is a “Bucket of Deplorables” Not Worthy of Media Coverage
11.26.17 Patent Sharks’ Last Resort: Mohawk Immunity, ‘STRONGER’ Patents Act, Qualcomm Thickets, and SLAPP
11.26.17 Patently-O is Still Trying to Derail Patent Reform in the United States
12.03.17 Famed Journalist Dan Gillmor Calls IBM the Inventor of Patent Trolling
12.06.17 The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is Calling for Greater Transparency at USPTO and US Patent Courts
12.07.17 Watchtroll, AIPPI, Bristows and Others Keep Pushing Software Patents Agenda (in Spite of the Ban)
12.10.17 The Federal Circuit Rules (Again) in Favour of Section 101/Alice, Koch-Funded CPIP Tries to Overturn Alice at the Supreme Court
12.18.17 Alice v CLS Bank (SCOTUS, 2014) Has Had a Profound Effect on 2017 as Nearly No Software Patents Upheld at a High Level
12.24.17 Align Technology Uses Some Software Patents Litigiously, Conjoined With Financial Sanctions/Pressure Through ITC
12.24.17 2017: The Year Software Patents Died Even in the Court Which Started Them
12.24.17 Post-Alice, the Patent Microcosm is Up in Arms and Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel for Anti-Alice Material
12.31.17 Michael Frakes and Melissa Wasserman Complain About Low Patent Quality While Watchtroll Lobbies to Lower It Further
12.31.17 Patent Trolls ‘Business’ After TC Heartland: It’s Very Tough!
01.04.18 Software Patents Are Still Being Rejected in the United States (New Examples), But the Anti-Alice Lobby Goes on
01.07.18 Allergan Collapses After Its Patent “Scam” Goes Awry and the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe Receives Negative Publicity for Abetting
01.07.18 In US District Courts Patent Litigation Fell by a Whopping 17% Last Year
01.09.18 For European Patents to Maintain Value the EPO Must Fix Patent Quality and Attract ‘Expensive’ (High-Calibre) Staff
01.09.18 Judge Paul Michel is Not So Retired; Helps the Patent Trolls’ Lobby Critique His Former Employer
01.13.18 The Patent Trolls’ Lobby is Happy That Rep. Darrell Issa is Leaving Because He Fought Against Patent Trolls
01.15.18 J Nicholas Gross Thinks Professors Stop Being Professors If They’re Not Patent Extremists Like Him
01.15.18 The US Supreme Court Has Just Denied Another Chance to Deal With a Case Similar to Alice (Potentially Impacting § 101)
01.15.18 Roundup of Patent News From Canada, South America and Australia
01.16.18 2018 Will be an Even Worse Year for Software Patents Because the US Supreme Court Shields Alice
01.17.18 EPO Board of Appeal Has an Opportunity to Stop Controversial Patents on Life
01.20.18 Patent Litigation in the US is Down Sharply and Patent Trolls’ Demise Has Much to Do With It
01.20.18 Qualcomm/Broadcom/NXP Combination Would Become a Disastrous Patent Thicket Which Benefits Nobody
01.21.18 Unified Patents Says That RPX, Which Might Soon be Owned by Patent Trolls, Paid Patent Trolls Hundreds of Millions of Dollars
01.23.18 Even More Uncertain a Future for the Independence of the EPO Boards of Appeal as Judge Corcoran Too Gets Sent to ‘Exile’
01.26.18 The Corcoran Incident Demonstrates That the EPO’s Boards of Appeal Are Threatened and Battistelli Violates Laws
01.28.18 “It’s No Longer Simply About Patent Quantity. It’s About Quality.”
01.28.18 An Uphill Battle for Software Patents in the United States, Except When Catchphrases and Buzzwords Are Used
01.28.18 In the United States, Software Patents Are Still Consistently Invalidated Under 35 U.S.C. § 101
01.30.18 The Lobby for Software Patents — Including Microsoft-Connected Law Firms — Clings Onto One Patent From a Microsoft-Sponsored Patent Troll
02.01.18 Patent Sharks Hope to Regain Control of the US Patent System With Iancu Appointment Likely Just 4 Days Away
02.01.18 EFF Has Just Warned That Depending on Outcomes of US Supreme Court Cases, US Could Have Most Notorious Patents in the World
02.03.18 India and Europe Do Not Permit Software Patents, But Patent Law Firms Try to Work Around the Law
02.05.18 Patents on GUIs Are Not Software Patents, But the Software Patents Lobby Ignores Fundamental Facts
02.05.18 The Efforts to Work Around 35 U.S.C. § 101 and Why IBM is So Afraid of § 101
02.06.18 Andrei Iancu’s Firm Has a History Working With Trump, But Senate Says OK to Him Becoming USPTO Director
02.09.18 Fake ‘Articles’, ‘Debates’ and ‘Webinars’ From Lobbyists Including IBM’s David Kappos, IPO and IPLAC
02.10.18 The Chamber of Corporations, Together With the Trolls’ Lobby, Resorts to Alarmist Propaganda in an Effort to Alter Patent Policy
02.11.18 The Patent Litigation ‘Industry’ Celebrates Outcome of Berkheimer v HP, But It’s Not About § 101
02.11.18 Pharma Patents Have Become Harder to Enforce, So IAM Together With the Patent Microcosm Sets Up Lobbying Events
02.11.18 Some § 101 Cases That the Patent ‘Industry’ Would Rather Not Talk (Much) About
02.11.18 SSH Communications and UnitedCorp Use Bogus Software Patents to Shake Down Large Firms
02.11.18 Improving the US Patent Office Requires Focus on the Quality (or Novelty) of Patents, Not Just Pendency
02.13.18 Watch Out for Buzzwords That Are Used to Mask Patents on Software, Even in Europe
02.13.18 Microsoft-Connected Patent Trolls, Xerox, and Andrei Iancu
02.13.18 The Campaign to Subvert the US Patent Office by Misrepresenting Its Successes
02.15.18 In Microsoft’s Lawsuit Against Corel the Only Winner is the Lawyers
02.16.18 Patent Trolls Are Thwarted by Judges, But Patent Lawyers View Them as a ‘Business’ Opportunity
02.17.18 Apple Discovers That Its Patent Disputes Are a Losing Battle Which Only Lawyers Win (Profit From)
02.18.18 Berkheimer Decision is Still Being Spun by the Anti-Section 101/Alice Lobby
02.18.18 Software Patents Trickle in After § 101/Alice, But Courts Would Not Honour Them Anyway
02.18.18 An Indoctrinated Minority is Maintaining the Illusion That Patent Policy is to Blame for All or Most Problems of the United States
02.18.18 Academic Patent Immunity is Laughable and Academics Are Influenced by Corporate Money (for Steering Patent Agenda)
02.19.18 The Patent ‘Industry’ Likes to Mention Berkheimer and Aatrix to Give the Mere Impression of Section 101/Alice Weakness
02.20.18 Japan Demonstrates Sanity on SEP Policy While US Patent Policy is Influenced by Lobbyists
02.24.18 Automated Tracking Solutions, Aatrix and Berkheimer Don’t Change Anything; They’re Exploited by Patent Extremists to Pressure/Mislead/Insult Judges
02.25.18 One Month Later the Patent ‘Industry’ is Still Promoting the Lie That GUIs Are Software and Thus CAFC Elevated Software Patents
02.25.18 Patents in the US Are Not Hard to Enforce, Software Patents Are
02.26.18 US Patent Courts Gravitate Towards Patent Justice Rather Than Patent Maximalism
02.27.18 IBM Has Become More of a Patent Broker Rather Than a Genuine Technology Company
02.27.18 Reactions to the Collapse of Allergan’s Scam With the Mohawk Tribe
03.04.18 When Patent Maximalists Openly and Shamelessly Defend a Patent ‘Scam’
03.04.18 Microsoft Should be Subjected to Antitrust Action For an Extensive Network of Patent Blackmail, But With a Lobbyist in Charge (Trump Appointee) Don’t Hold Your Breath
03.04.18 Patents on Life Are a Cancer
03.05.18 Quick Mention: Dominion Harbor Reinforces Its Connection to Microsoft
03.06.18 Calling Genetics and Other Things “Life Sciences” Does Not Turn Nature Into Patentable Science
03.08.18 The European Patent Office (EPO) Ought to Lead in Patent Scope, Not Slide to the Bottom of the Pile
03.10.18 Judge Koh, Famous for Her Apple/Samsung Rulings, Pours Cold Water on Haptic Technology Patents While China is Sought as Alternative Litigation Venue by Iancu-Connected Immersion
03.10.18 Alice/§ 101 is Improving the Quality of Patents in the United States and Patent Law Firms Are Panicking
03.10.18 US Senate is Cracking Down on Patent Scammers
03.10.18 IAM Only Ever Seems Happy When There’s Patent Aggression and Patent Trolls
03.10.18 Unified Patents Puts $2,000 Bounties on Prior Art, Seeking to Defang Texan Patent Trolls That Are Active In Spite of TC Heartland
03.11.18 We Shall Soon Find Out Where Trump Appointees Such as Neil Gorsuch Stand on Patent Policies
03.11.18 Trump’s USPTO Changes Patent Designs, Changes Director/Deputy Director, and Anticipat ‘Ranks’ Patent Examiners Based on How They Deal With Section 101
03.12.18 Patent Academics and CAFC Make a Living Out of Patents, But Both Must Begrudgingly Learn to Accept That Patents Went Too Far
03.12.18 EPO Patent ‘Growth’ Not Achieved But Demanded/Mandated by Battistelli, by Lowering Quality of Patents/Services
03.13.18 Patent Trolls in the United States Increasingly Target Small Businesses Which Cannot Challenge Their Likely-Invalid Software Patents
03.17.18 The Patent ‘Industry’ is Increasingly Mocking CAFC and Its Judges Because It Doesn’t Like the Decisions
03.17.18 The Patent ‘Printing Machine’ of the EPO Will Spawn Many Lawsuits and Extortions (Threats of Lawsuits), in Effect Taxing Europe
03.19.18 Patent Maximalists Keep Coming Up With New Terms and Buzzwords to Bypass the Practical Ban on Software Patents
03.20.18 The US International Trade Commission (USITC) Against Comcast, Courtesy of the Intellectual Ventures-Connected Rovi
03.23.18 The European Patent Office’s (EPO) Declining Patent Quality ‘Tackled’ by Making Appeals/Oppositions Harder and More Expensive
03.23.18 The Enemies of the Patent System Are Patent Maximalists, Not Those Pursuing Saner Patent Policy
03.24.18 The Patent Maximalists Already Pressure USPTO Director Andrei Iancu to Say the ‘Right’ Things
03.24.18 Using Politics to Do the Patent Trolls’ Bidding With STRONGER Patents Act, Just Like the UPC in Europe
03.26.18 On Media Hype, Software Patents, and 35 U.S.C. § 101 Which Annuls Both
03.27.18 More Litigation Ventures of Intellectual Ventures (Microsoft’s Patent Troll) Stopped by Unified Patents
04.01.18 Patents Roundup: Abject Lack of Proper Patent Justice and Updates From Microsoft’s Patent Trolls and Patent Strategist
04.02.18 The Latest SLAPP From the Patent Microcosm Shows Just How Abusive Patent Extremists Can be Towards Their Critics
04.03.18 Berkheimer Can be Overturned and Software Patents Are Still a Waste of Time/Money/Effort in the United States
04.04.18 The European Patent Office (EPO) Will Need to Acknowledge It Has a Patent Quality Issue, Then Tackle It or Perish
04.08.18 The Patent Litigation Lobby — by Cherry-Picking Court Decisions — Explores Ways to Work Around 35 U.S.C. § 101 and Patent Software
04.09.18 Hype Waves Exploited by the Software Patents Lobby: Blockchain, Autonomous Driving, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, and Wearables
04.10.18 EPO in ‘Low Profile’ Mode, Only to be Mentioned in Relation to India’s Oil Drilling/Miners
04.10.18 Microsoft’s Extortion Racket Against GNU/Linux Carries on, Both Directly and Indirectly (via Patent Trolls)
04.10.18 IAM Churning Out Support for the Software Patents and HEVC Lobby
04.11.18 More SCOTUS Patent Cases on Their Way, But Nothing That Will Change 35 U.S.C. § 101/Alice
04.12.18 Patent Trolls in the United States Show the Importance of Stopping Software Patents (Trolls’ Favourite) Worldwide
04.12.18 The USPTO Has a Nepotism and Lobbying Problem That Jeopardises the Rationality of US Patent Law
04.14.18 The ‘Blockchaining’ of Software Patents (to Dodge the Rules/Guidelines) Now Coming to Europe
04.19.18 To Understand Why People Say That Lawyers are Liars Look No Further Than Misleading Promotion of Software Patents
04.21.18 In Keith Raniere v Microsoft Both Sides Are Evil But for Different Reasons
04.21.18 As USPTO Director, Andrei Iancu Gives Three Months for Public Comments on 35 U.S.C. § 101 (Software Patenting Impacted)
04.22.18 The Federal Circuit’s (CAFC) Decisions Are Being Twisted by Patent Propaganda Sites Which Merely Cherry-Pick Cases With Outcomes That Suit Them
04.23.18 District Courts’ Patent Cases, Including the Eastern District of Texas (EDTX/TXED), in a Nutshell
04.23.18 Patent Trolls Watch: Red River Innovations, Bradium Technologies/General Patent, and Wordlogic
04.24.18 Patent Maximalists Step Things Up With Director Andrei Iancu and It’s Time for Scientists to Fight Back
04.24.18 Koch Brothers and Big Oil Could Not Buy the Decisions in Oil States, SAS
04.26.18 World IP Day, a Propaganda Opportunity for Patent Maximalists, is Becoming More About Feminism
04.29.18 When You Cannot Win the Case Attack the Judge and Say the Decision is Wrong
04.29.18 Patent Maximalists Are Using SAS Institute v Iancu to Distract From Their Epic Defeat in the Vastly More Important Oil States
04.30.18 Like a Pack of Spoiled Brats, Patent Maximalists and Media That They Control Bash the Oil States Decision and Distract From It
04.30.18 The Federal Circuit Bar Association (FCBA) Sets Up Stuffed/Stacked Panels About Oil States and SAS Institute
05.01.18 The Software Patenting Hopefuls Still Hope to Convince Patent Examiners (or the USPTO’s Leadership) to Keep Granting Software Patents Which US Courts Repeatedly Reject
05.02.18 How the Patent Microcosm and Patent Extremists Cover Oil States More Than a Week Later
05.03.18 The European Patent Office Has Become a Kakistocracy
05.05.18 The European Patent Office’s Decline in Patent Quality a ‘Blessing’ in Disguise But Mostly a Curse to Apple
05.05.18 Post-Alice, Using Software Patents, Microsoft-Backed Patent Troll Finjan Continues Suing Microsoft’s Competitors
05.06.18 The Board Continues to Leverage 35 USC § 101/Alice to Invalidate More and More Software Patents in the United States
05.06.18 Patents Roundup: Nintendo, Watchtroll’s Lies, Judge Reyna’s Latest Decision (Disc Disease), and Bayh-Dole
05.09.18 Microsoft is Attacking the Competition Through Patent Trolls Based in Texas, Armed by Microsoft’s Former Management
05.12.18 Patents on Life (or Supposed ‘Gene-Editing’/CRISPR) Are a Gross Distortion of the Raison D’être of Patents
05.13.18 Software Patents in the United States: It’s a Lot More Difficult, But Patent Examiners Must Watch Out for Buzzwords and Hype/Marketing
05.13.18 Three Weeks After Oil States the Patent Microcosm Has Already ‘Buried’ the Subject and 35 U.S.C. § 101 is Under Threat
05.13.18 Alice/Section 101 is Fine Because Copyrights Already Cover Software and Patents Are Inadequate for Code
05.14.18 It Doesn’t Take a Genius to See That Microsoft Still Attacks GNU/Linux With Patents to Make Billions of Dollars in ‘Protection’ Money
05.15.18 Inter Partes Reviews (IPRs) Make the United States a Much Better Place for Innovation and Creation
05.20.18 Software Patenting and Successful Litigation a Very Difficult Task Under 35 U.S.C. § 101
05.23.18 Masking Abstract Patents in the Age of Alice/§ 101 in the United States
05.24.18 Stupid Blogs, Stupid Lawsuits, and Stupid Patents
05.27.18 Software Patents Advocacy and UPC Lies Go Hand in Hand
05.27.18 IAM Warns That China is Outpacing the United States at Granting Rubbish, Unproductive Patents on Abstract Things
05.27.18 Letting the USPTO Decide on Fees Would Lead to a ‘Battistelli Scenario’
05.28.18 Microsoft and Its Patent Trolls Face an Uphill Battle in a Patent System Which is Increasingly Hostile Towards Software Patents
05.28.18 Supreme Court Justices and 35 U.S.C. § 101 Are Fixing the USPTO, Voiding ‘Fake Patents’
05.29.18 High US Court Rules Against Patents on GUIs
05.30.18 USPTO Has a ‘Revolving Doors’ Problem
05.31.18 The Open Invention Network (OIN) is Becoming an Even Greater Part of the Problem, Embracing Software Patents Through Hype
06.01.18 Patenting Bar Raised by US Courts, But the Patent Microcosm (Now Infesting ‘Bloomberg Law’ and Other Media) Fights Back With Deception
06.03.18 IBM and Its Terrible Software Patents, Which Are Disguised as ‘AI’, ‘Cloud’, and More Recently ‘Blockchain’
06.03.18 Finnegan, IAM and Other Proponents of Patent Trolls Try to Dominate the Debate About Patent Scope and Oversight
06.03.18 The Crackdown on Poor-Quality Patents in the United States Goes Well Beyond 35 U.S.C. § 101/Alice
06.03.18 The Patent Microcosm is Spinning Berkheimer Again, Hoping to Compel Politicians to Undermine Section 101 and Promote Software Patents
06.04.18 IAM and EPO Are Almost Inseparable
06.04.18 The Only Way to Improve Patent Certainty in the US is to Improve Patent Quality, Not to Lower It
06.05.18 Patent Trolls Roundup: Microsoft’s Intellectual Ventures, Blue Spike, and KAIST
06.05.18 Microsoft’s Patent Trolls Continue to Attack Microsoft’s Rivals, Including These Companies’ Use of Free/Open Source Software
06.07.18 Marks & Clerk Blames Battistelli’s Victims, the Boards of Appeal, Whose Job Guarded Patent Quality
06.09.18 A Post-TC Heartland (and Post-Alice) Patent System is Bad if Not Fatal News to Patent Trolls Like Microsoft’s Intellectual Ventures
06.09.18 Shawn Ambwani (Unified Patents) Refutes the US Chamber of Commerce on Patents, But the Patent Trolls’ Lobby (IAM) Uses Him to Trot Out Yet More Misleading Propaganda
06.10.18 Still ‘Pulling a Berkheimer’ Almost 4 Months Down the Line
06.10.18 The International Trade Commission (ITC/USITC) Will Possibly Get Abolished Unless It Can Reform Itself
06.11.18 Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe Blind to Its Participation in a Scam Around Patents on Nature
06.11.18 Post-AIA, Post-Alice/§ 101 USPTO Still Granting Software Patents in Defiance of the (Case)Law
06.13.18 Buzzwords and Three-Letter Acronyms Still Abused by the EPO to Grant a Lot of Patents on Algorithms
06.13.18 When the USPTO Grants Patents in Defiance of 35 U.S.C. § 101 the Courts Will Eventually Squash These Anyway
06.14.18 IAM Concludes Its Latest Anti-§ 101 Think Tank, Featuring Crooked Benoît Battistelli
06.14.18 From the Eastern District of Texas to Delaware, US Patent Litigation is (Overall) Still Declining
06.17.18 To Keep the Patent System Alive and Going Practitioners Will Have to Accept Compromises on Scope Being Narrowed
06.17.18 The Affairs of the USPTO Have Turned Into Somewhat of a Battle Against the Courts, Which Are Simply Applying the Law to Invalidate US Patents
06.20.18 Patent Extremists Are Unable to Find Federal Circuit Cases That Help Them Mislead on Alice
06.20.18 The Eastern District of Texas is Where Asian Companies/Patents/Trolls Still Go After TC Heartland
06.20.18 What Use Are 10 Million Patents That Are of Low Quality in a Patent Office Controlled by the Patent ‘Industry’?
06.24.18 Alice, Which Turns Four, Has Saved Billions of Dollars Previously Wasted on ‘Protection’ Money (Notably Patent Trolls)
06.24.18 Stronger Patents or None at All: How the Greed of Patent Law Firms and the Patent Office Contributes to Bogus Software Patents Being Amassed
06.24.18 Can Alice/35 U.S.C. § 101 Stop Microsoft-Connected Patent Trolls in the US?
06.24.18 Patent Strengthening Would Necessarily Mean Lowering the Number of Patents Granted After Alice/35 U.S.C. § 101
06.24.18 Patent Extremism — Like All Extremes — Leads to Bad Outcomes
06.26.18 Number of US Patent Lawsuits Was More Than 50% Higher Half a Decade Ago
06.28.18 US Patent Number 10,000,000 May be a Bogus One, as Per Alice/Section 101
06.30.18 Unified Patents Under Attack From Patent Maximalists and Patent Trolls for Caring About Quality of Patents
07.02.18 Buzzwords and Hyped-Up Patent Cases (Like Berkheimer) Are Still Being Exploited to Promote Software Patents
07.02.18 The Innocent (Wrongly Accused of Patent Infringement) Should Be Fully Compensated by the Aggressor/s and Maintain Basic Privacy
07.02.18 Patent Law Firms Have Become Debased and Intolerant of Courts/Judges, Just Like EPO Management
07.05.18 Abstract Ideas and Mental (Thoughts) Type of Claims Still Deemed Patent-Ineligible, Buzzwords Are Used Instead
07.05.18 The Latest Twists in US Patent Courts
07.07.18 Alice and Mayo (Inspiring § 101) Untouched for the Foreseeable Future, Meaning That the Patent Microcosm Now Smears the US Supreme Court
07.08.18 Apple Has Far More to Lose Than to Gain From Patent Maximalism; Apple Needs to Fight for Patent Sanity
07.08.18 The Term ‘Life Science’ Has Outlived Its Usefulness
07.08.18 In Spite of Resistance From the Patent Microcosm the USPTO Strives to Improve Patent Quality
07.12.18 The Anti-35 U.S.C. § 101 Lobby Pushes Old News Into the Headlines in an Effort to Resurrect/Protect Software Patents
07.12.18 Thomas Massie and Marcy Kaptur Are Promoting the Interests of Patent Trolls and Patent Lawyers While Calling That “Innovation”
07.15.18 Asking the USPTO to Comply With 35 U.S.C. § 101 is Like Asking Pentagon Officials to Pursue Real, Persistent Peace
07.15.18 ‘Blockchain’, ‘Cloud’ and Whatever Else Gets Exploited to Work Around 35 U.S.C. § 101 (or the EPC) and Patent Algorithms/Software
07.16.18 Alliance for US Startups and Inventors for Jobs (USIJ) Misleads the US Government, Pretending to Speak for Startups While Spreading Lies for the Patent Microcosm
07.17.18 Software Patents Royalty (Tax) Campaign by IBM, a Serial Patent Bully, and the EPO’s Participation in All This
07.17.18 Patents on Computer Software and Plants in the United States Indicative of Systemic Error
07.17.18 What Patent Lawyers Aren’t Saying: Most Patent Litigation Has Become Too Risky to be Worth It
07.18.18 “Trade Secrets” Litigation Rising in the Wake of TC Heartland, Alice, Oil States and Other Patent-Minimising Decisions
07.19.18 Some US Patents’ Quality is So Low That There’s a Garden Clearance/Fire Sale
07.19.18 Erosion of Patent Justice in Europe With Kangaroo Courts and Low-Quality European Patents
07.21.18 Federal Circuit Judges Moore, Dyk and Reyna Tell Allergan That It is Not Above the Law
07.21.18 Cisco v Arista Networks is a Stain on the Reputation of the US International Trade Commission (ITC) and It’s Beginning to Recognise This
07.21.18 The EPO (European Patent Office) Under António Campinos is Just Another Battistelli EPO; Still UPC and Software Patents Lobbying
07.22.18 Patents Roundup: Patent Litigation is Down and Seems to Have Shifted Away From Software Patents
07.22.18 Cherry-Picking Dissenting Opinions on Patent Cases the Last/Latest Resort for Patent Maximalists
07.22.18 Half a Year Later the Patent Microcosm is Still ‘Pulling a Berkheimer’ in Vain
07.25.18 Patent Microcosm and New USPTO Director Against Patent Quality Assurance
07.25.18 Trump-Appointed Lobbyist (Delrahim) Comes Under Scrutiny and Criticism for His Stance on Patents and Antitrust
07.28.18 Microsoft’s Biggest Patent Troll Now Leverages the US ‘International’ Trade Commission (ITC) for Embargo Attempts
07.29.18 Watchtroll Demonstrates Disdain and Scorn for Science and Technology; IBM is Happy to Cooperate
07.30.18 What EPO Staff is ‘Hopeful’ After a Month of António Campinos Doing Absolutely Nothing to Reverse Battistelli’s Ruinous Policies?
08.05.18 Understanding of Microsoft’s Patent Strategy Requires Scrutiny of the Patent Trolls It’s Connected to
08.06.18 Agenda and Lies From Watchtroll Make It Into the Bill of Rohrabacher, the “Inventor Protection Act”
08.06.18 Playing With Words and Buzzwords in a Landscape of Software Patents Rejections
08.07.18 Arista Shows How ITC Injustice (Embargo Before Facts Are Even Known) Harms Smaller Businesses, Helps Monopolists
08.07.18 The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) is Cleaning Up the United States’ Patent System
08.07.18 Supreme Court and Federal Circuit Precedents Might Make District Courts (Outside Texas) More Sceptical of Patents
08.08.18 Patent Maximalists — Not Reformers — Are the Biggest Threat to the Viability of the Patent System and Innovation
08.09.18 Patents as Profiteering Opportunities for Law Firms Rather Than Drivers of Innovation for Productive Companies
08.09.18 Propaganda Sites of Patent Trolls and Litigators Have Quit Trying to Appear Impartial or Having Integrity
08.09.18 Months After Oil States the Patent Maximalists Still Try to Undermine Inter Partes Reviews (“IPRs”), Refusing to Accept Patent Quality
08.11.18 Thomas Massie’s “Restoring America’s Leadership in Innovation Act of 2018” (RALIA) Would Put the US Patent System in the Lions’ (or Trolls’) Mouth Again
08.12.18 Software Patents, Secured by ‘Smart’ and ‘Intelligent’ Tricks, Help Microsoft and Others Bypass Alice/Section 101
08.14.18 Berkheimer Changed Nothing and Invalidation Rates of Abstract Software Patents Remain Very High
08.14.18 Patent Lawyers Writing Patent Law for Their Own Enrichment Rather Than for Innovation
08.15.18 Antiquated Patenting Trick: Adding Words Like ‘Apparatus’ to Make Abstract Ideas Look/Sound Like They Pertain to or Contain a ‘Device’
08.16.18 The Demise of US Software Patents Continues at the Federal Circuit
08.19.18 From the Eastern District of Texas (US) to Australia Patent Quality Remains a Problem
08.21.18 Software Patent Trolls Are Dropping Like Flies in the United States
08.25.18 The USPTO’s New Strategic Plan Should be to Keep Services Available and Actually Explain a Week’s Downtime
08.26.18 Software Patents Are Not Coming Back, Those Are Mere Buzzwords That Mislead and Overcome Rejections But Cannot Fool Courts
08.26.18 The Supreme Court (SCOTUS) is Not Changing US Patent Scope, But Cases Such as Ariosa v Illumina Are Interesting Nonetheless
08.26.18 Patent Trolls Roundup: Epic IP (IP Edge), Cumberland Systems, MacroSolve and Others
08.26.18 The Patent ‘Industry’ Continues to Mislead the Public on Software Patents
08.27.18 IBM Publicity Stunts Which Strive to Portray This Patent Bully as Generous, Playful and Fun
08.28.18 Patents on Steroids: ITC is Rushing Embargoes Before the Facts Are Even Known
08.28.18 Pen One Acquisition Group is a Patent Troll Indirectly Connected to Microsoft and There’s No Simple Solution to Such Problems
08.28.18 Instead of Stopping Software Patent Grants the USPTO Actively ‘Advertises’ Such Patents, e.g. Patents on Cryptocurrencies
08.30.18 Feeling Shut Out of the European Patent System, Team UPC Persists With Misleading Claims and Falsehoods
09.02.18 In the Post-Alice Era, in Spite of the Berkheimer Hype, the Patent Microcosm Finally Admits There’s No Turnaround
09.02.18 Eligibility Analysis Based on Section 101 Ought to Invalidate All Software Patents and Repel Further Applications
09.02.18 The Patent Public Advisory Committee (PPAC) Needs to Instruct the Patent Office to Stop Treating Applicants as Customers/Clients
09.03.18 Apple Suffers From Patent Trolls in the Eastern District of Texas Where Microsoft Uses Its Trolls (Connected to Intellectual Ventures) to Bully Apple, Linux/Android and Other Microsoft Rivals
09.04.18 The António Campinos-Led EPO is Over-Relying on Bogus and Abstract Software Patents to Fill the Gaps
09.04.18 Paul Janicke, Paul Morinville and Gene Quinn Romanticise a World of Patent Trolls and Frivolous Litigation
09.05.18 CCIA Speaks Out and EFF Lashes Out at Andrei Iancu’s USPTO for Trying to Work Around the Law and Ignore Courts Because of Patent Maximalists’ Agenda
09.07.18 ITC is Serving Patent Trolls Now
09.08.18 35 U.S.C. § 101 Squashes Already-Granted US Patents, Europe Needs Post-Grant Appeals to Accomplish the Same Because EPO Grants Software Patents
09.08.18 Watchtroll is Attacking the Federal Circuit for the ‘Thoughtcrime’ of Pursuing Patent Quality
09.09.18 District Courts — Not Just the Federal Circuit (Higher Court) — Increasingly Reject Software Patents (Even ‘Better’ Ones)
09.09.18 Watchtroll Calls Company That Defends Itself From Patent-Trolling-Like Behaviour a ‘Patent Troll’
09.12.18 The Belated Demise of Propaganda Sites of the Litigation ‘Industry’
09.12.18 Patents on Life at the EPO Are a Symptom of Declining Patent Quality
09.16.18 Patent Trolls Are Still Active and Microsoft is Closely Connected to Many of Them
09.16.18 Slamming Courts and Judges Won’t Help the Patent Maximalists; It Can Only Make Things Worse
09.16.18 Watchtroll and Other Proponents of Patent Trolls Are Trying to Change the Law Outside the Courts in Order to Bypass Patent Justice
09.17.18 “Blockchain” Hype and “FinTech”-Like Buzzwords Usher in Software Patents Everywhere, Even Where Such Patents Are Obviously Bunk
09.18.18 Today’s European Patent Office (EPO) Works for Large, Foreign Pharmaceutical Companies in Pursuit of Patents on Nature, Life, and Essential/Basic Drugs
09.18.18 Qualcomm’s Escalating Patent Wars Have Already Caused Massive Buybacks (Loss of Reserves) and Loss of Massive Clients
09.23.18 Patent Law Firms Have Become More Like Marketing Departments With an Aptitude for Buzzwords
09.23.18 Open Invention Network is Rendered Obsolete in the Wake of Alice and It’s Not Even Useful in Combating Microsoft’s Patent Trolls
09.23.18 ‘Owning’ Nature, Thanks to Patent Insanity and People Who Profit From That
09.24.18 USPTO FEES ACT Makes the US Patent Office a Money-Making Machine That Systematically Disregards Patent Quality
09.25.18 Technology Groups and Innovators Bemoan Attempts to Override the Courts to Promote Patent Maximalists’ Agenda by USPTO Director Andrei Iancu
09.28.18 In the EPO Under António Campinos and His Predecessor Battistelli Patents Can Almost be Presumed “Invalid” (in Courts)
09.30.18 The Demise of the Eastern District of Texas as Litigation Venue of Value
09.30.18 Corporate Media Exploits Blockchain Hype to Promote Software Patents Painted as ‘Blockchains’
10.01.18 The USPTO is Hopeless, Unlike Patent Courts That Have Become the Target of Ridicule by the Patent ‘Industry’
10.04.18 Microsoft’s Patent Trolls Are Alive and Well, Seeding Destruction Among Microsoft’s Competition
10.07.18 The Era of Fake Patents (or Software Patents) is Upon Us
10.08.18 When It Comes to Patent Quality António Campinos Might be Even Worse Than Benoît Battistelli
10.09.18 Greg Reilly Inadvertently Makes a Case for Replacing/Improving the Patent System With a Wiki, Editable by All as Society Moves Forward
10.09.18 The USPTO’s Principal Issue is Abstract Patents (or Patent Scope), Not Prior Art Searches
10.10.18 Open Invention Network is a Proponent of Software Patents — Just Like Microsoft — and Microsoft Keeps Patents It Uses to Blackmail Linux Vendors
10.14.18 Federal Circuit Doubles Down on User Interface Patents, Helps Microsoft-Connected Patent Trolls Curtail the Prime Competitor of Microsoft Office
10.14.18 Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Decides That USPTO Wrongly Granted Patents to Roche
10.14.18 USPTO FEES Act/SUCCESS Act Gives More Powers to Director Iancu, Supplying Patents for Litigation ‘Business’ and Embargo (ITC)
10.14.18 Even Judge Gilstrap From Texas is Starting to Accept That Software Patents Are Invalid
10.17.18 Improving US Patent Quality Through Reassessments of Patents and Courts’ Transparency
10.21.18 Alice/Mayo and Hatch-Influenced US Patent Office
10.21.18 Lack of Patent Quality Means Lack of Patent Validity and Lack of Legal Certainty
10.21.18 The Eastern District of Texas and Its Patent Trolls Affinity Not a Solved Issue
10.23.18 The EPO Under António Campinos Has Opened More Doors to Software Patents and Only Litigators Are Happy
10.24.18 Colleen Chien’s New Paper Analyses the Basis for Invalidating Software Patents
10.24.18 The Patent Microcosm is Trying to Derail Patent Reform and Make Iancu the ‘American Battistelli’
10.25.18 The Litigation ‘Industry’ Pays the Media for ‘Sponsored’ (Paid-for) Articles That Sway Public Opinion on Patent Policy
10.28.18 The ITC Makes Embargo Using Almost-Expired Patents a Business Strategy of Intimidation and Harassment
10.29.18 USPTO Under Iancu: Making Patents Low Quality (Again)
10.30.18 Donald Trump’s Choice of Leadership for the USPTO Means That Invalid Patents Continue to be Granted Only for Law Firms to Profit
10.30.18 Nobody Should be Immune From Patent Law or the Rule of Law in General
11.04.18 Rather Than Accept That 35 U.S.C. § 101 Has Put an End to Software Patents the Large Law Firms Insist on Working Around the Law
11.04.18 Software Patents Proponents Abound: IAM, IBM, Kappos, OIN and Microsoft
11.05.18 The US Patent and Trademark Office Continues Granting Abstract Software Patents Because of Buzzwords
11.05.18 HTIA and CCIA — Two Front Groups of Technology Companies — Are Very Unhappy About Andrei Iancu’s Support for Patent Trolls
11.05.18 The USPTO Under Director Andrei Iancu Actively Disses the Courts and Attacks Fundamental Patent Law
11.09.18 Unified Patents Takes Aim at Velos Media SEPs, Passed From Patent Aggressor Qualcomm
11.11.18 Andrei Iancu and Laura Peter Are Two Proponents of Patent Trolls at the Top of the USPTO
11.11.18 Automation of Searches Will Not Solve the Legitimacy Problem Caused by Patents Lust
11.11.18 Patent Maximalists Will Latch Onto Return Mail v US Postal Service in an Effort to Weaken or Limit Post-Grant Reviews of US Patents
11.12.18 The Federal Circuit Bar Association (FCBA) Will Spread the Berkheimer Lie While Legal Certainty Associated With Patents Remains Low and Few Lawsuits Filed
11.13.18 The USPTO and EPO Pretend to Care About Patent Quality by Mingling With the Terms “Patent” and “Quality”
11.15.18 Berkheimer or No Berkheimer, Software Patents Remain Mostly Unenforceable in the United States and the Supreme Court is Fine With That
11.19.18 A Fresh Look at Recent 35 U.S.C. § 101 Cases Reveals Rapid Demise of Software Patents Even in District (Lower) Courts
11.19.18 All the Usual Suspects Are Still Working Hard to Harm the Legitimacy if Not Existence of Patent Quality Control
11.19.18 The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Must Be Based on Justice, Not Profits
11.20.18 Germany Likes EPO in Munich, Litigation Factory in Düsseldorf and Mannheim (Like Eastern District of Texas)
11.21.18 To Mask the Decline in Patent Quality, e.g. Granting of Software Patents a.k.a. Computer-Implemented Inventions (CII), EPO Makes Oppositions Harder
11.26.18 No, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) Has Not Changed Its Position on Software Patents, Which Are Bunk
11.28.18 Clouding Abstract Software Patents Using Acronyms and Buzzwords
12.01.18 EPO Management High-Fiving Patent Propaganda Sites Like ‘Managing IP’ While Granting Illegitimate Patents on Algorithms
12.02.18 Patent Trolls, USPTO Director Andrei Iancu and Section 101
12.02.18 35 U.S.C. § 101 Continues to Crush Software Patents and Even Microsoft Joins ‘the Fun’
12.02.18 The Patent Microcosm Hopes That the Federal Circuit Will Get ‘Tired’ of Rejecting Software Patents
12.02.18 The Anti-Section 101 (Pro-Software Patents) Lobby Looks at New Angles for Watering Down Guidelines and Caselaw
12.03.18 The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) and IBM Are Part of the Software Patents Problem in the United States
12.06.18 The Federal Circuit’s Decision on Ancora Technologies v HTC America is the Rare Exception, Not the Norm
12.09.18 Good News: US Supreme Court Rejects Efforts to Revisit Alice, Most Software Patents to Remain Worthless
12.10.18 A Month After Microsoft Claimed Patent ‘Truce’ Its Patent Trolls Keep Attacking Microsoft’s Rivals
12.10.18 US Courts Make the United States’ Patent System Sane Again
12.19.18 Software Patents Are Very Weak in the United States
12.22.18 Patent Attorneys Still Insult Judges Because Their Clients, Notably Patent Trolls, Hate 35 U.S.C. § 101 (and Courts Are Correctly Applying It)
12.28.18 The Demise of Patent Trolls and Software Patents in the US Continued in 2018
12.30.18 2019 in Techrights: New Datacentre, New Focus
01.03.19 Unified Patents Targets Patents of Patent Trolls, Including Some That Are Connected to Microsoft
01.06.19 As Expected, Director Iancu Tries to Water Down the Examiners’ Guidance in Revised Patent Subject Matter Eligibility Document
01.06.19 Unified Patents Goes After Patent Trolls Funded and Armed (Given Patents) by Microsoft
01.13.19 Only the Higher Courts — Not Trump’s ‘Poster Child’ — Can Bring Back Software Patents
01.17.19 US Patent Lawyers Will Need to Change Profession or End up Becoming Abundantly Redundant, Unemployed
01.20.19 The EFF Must Return That ‘Internship’ Money to Google or It Would Disgrace the Patent Reform Movement (by Association)
01.20.19 The Indian Ministry of Commerce Tries to Bend Patent Law in Favour of Foreign Monopolies
01.26.19 European Patent Quality as Awful Under António Campinos as (If Not Worse Than) Benoît Battistelli and Battistelli Makes a Public Comeback
01.27.19 The USPTO Used to Pose a Threat to European Software Developers. Now It’s the EPO Posing a Threat to Software Developers Worldwide.
01.27.19 Always Remember That Red Hat Also Considered Microsoft as a Buyer
01.27.19 January Closes as Another Month (Among Many Months) of No Turnarounds on Software Patents
01.30.19 People Are Dying Because of Low Quality of (Wrongly-Granted) European Patents
02.01.19 Stupid Acquisition of the Month (or Year): Red Hat Selling Itself to the World’s Biggest Lobbying Power for Software Patents
02.02.19 The Berkheimer Case Will Turn One Very Soon and Nothing Has Changed, Just as We’ve Argued and Forecast All Along
02.06.19 The Attack on the Independence of the European Judges Has Apparently Expanded to the German Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht)
02.07.19 Donald Trump’s ‘Swamp’ Inside the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is Not Obeying Courts, It’s Even Disregarding the Law
02.11.19 The American Software Patents Lobby Has Died
02.12.19 USPTO Director Iancu Works for Anti-SCOTUS (Against Section 101) Lobbyists
02.17.19 Techrights’ Priorities Over the Years
02.17.19 Courts in Disagreement: Warning on Wrongly-Granted European Patents and the Looming Collapse of All Software Patents in Europe
02.19.19 What Happened in the United States Now Happens in Europe: Lots of Patents Turn Out to Be Bunk, Fake, Bogus, Invalid and Thus Worthless
02.20.19 How Long Can the EPO Bend the Rules Before the Avalanche of Invalid Software Patents?
02.22.19 Software Patents Are in a Freefall in Courts Worldwide, But the EPO Keeps Granting and Promoting These
02.28.19 The US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) Will Waste No Time on Section 101. It Will, However, Waste Its Time on Obvious Patent Trolls.
02.28.19 T 0489/14: Will the European Patent Organisation Put an End to Software Patents at Long Last?
03.01.19 Lesson From the United States: Overly Permissive Patent Policy (Maximalism) Can Drive Technology Companies Away
03.02.19 Decades of ‘Stupid’ Software Patents, Tactlessly Granted by the USPTO, Have Caused a Flood of Invalidations and Now a ‘Section 101 Day’
03.02.19 Techrights is Still Growing, Not Just in Scale (Number of Articles) But Also in Reach
03.05.19 The EPO Technical/Enlarged Board of Appeal Would, Potentially (If It Enjoyed Actual Independence), Serve a ‘European Alice’ and Eliminate All/Most Software Patents in Europe
03.06.19 Power and Corruption: How European Patent Office Nepotism and Despotism Open Doors
03.08.19 3,000 Posts About the European Patent Office and Why We’ll Maintain Our Focus on It
03.10.19 Koch Brothers’ Oil Money is Poisoning Academia and Distorting Scholarly Work/Research on Patents
03.10.19 Europe Will Pay a High Price for Software Patents Advocacy by António Campinos in Europe’s Patent-Granting Authority
03.11.19 US Patent Law Currently Not Changing Much and Software Patents Are Still in Limbo
03.13.19 In the Age of Trumpism EFF Needs to Repeatedly Remind Director Iancu That He is Not a Judge and He Cannot Ignore the Courts
03.15.19 Stopping António Campinos and His Software Patents Agenda (Not Legal in Europe) Would Require Independent Courts
03.18.19 Director Iancu Generally Viewed as a Lapdog of Patent Trolls
03.18.19 Microsoft and Its Patent Trolls Continue Their Patent War, Including the War on Linux
03.19.19 Where the USPTO Stands on the Subject of Abstract Software Patents
03.22.19 Why the UK Intellectual Property Office (UK-IPO) Cannot Ignore Judges, Whereas the EPO Can (and Does)
03.23.19 Patent Law Firms Still Desperate to Find New Ways to Resurrect Dead Software Patents in the United States
03.24.19 Just Published: Irrational Ignorance at the Patent Office
03.30.19 A March in Brussels Next Month, Disgruntled EPO Staff Invited
03.31.19 Technology Groups Implore the Deplorable Patent Office of Iancu and Trump
04.03.19 The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) ‘Disses’ Iancu’s Guidance on 35 U.S.C. § 101, Sides With the Supreme Court (Alice) and Caselaw
04.04.19 The Staff Union of the European Patent Office (SUEPO) Warns About the Granting of Tens of Thousands of Invalid European Patents Every Year
04.06.19 3 Months Later (and Counting) Software Patents Remain Demolished in the United States
04.08.19 Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) — Like MedTech at the EPO — Just Another Dodge for Illegitimate Software Patents
04.10.19 EPO Benefits European Patent Trolls With Dodgy European Patents
04.11.19 EPO Still Wasting Budget, Paying Media and Academics for Spin
04.12.19 The EPO is Slipping Out of Control Again and It’s Another Battistelli-Like Mess With Disregard for the Rule of Law and Patent Scope
04.13.19 Further Decreasing Focus on Software Patents in the United States as They Barely Exist in Valid Form Anymore
04.18.19 The US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) Once Again Pours Cold Water on Patent Maximalists
04.20.19 Largest Patent Offices Try to Leave Courts in a State of Disarray to Enable the Granting of Fake Patents in the US and Europe
04.22.19 USPTO and EPO Both Slammed for Abandoning Patent Quality and Violating the Law/Caselaw in Order to Grant Illegitimate Patents on Life/Nature and Mathematics
04.25.19 American Patent Courts Keep Narrowing Patent Scope, No Matter What Few Politicians Are Doing on Behalf of Litigation Firms and Patent Trolls
05.01.19 Lack of Justice at the EPO Continues to Usher in Fake Patents on Abstract Things
05.03.19 In the Courts, Where Patents Are Assessed Independently, Geeks Are Winning the Battle Against Parasitic Litigation Firms
05.05.19 2019: The Year Patent Zealots’ Blogs Have Mostly Collapsed
05.09.19 Illegal Software Patents and Patent Trolls Well Served by European and American Patent Offices But Not Courts
05.11.19 Making the Patent System About Productive Actors (Again), Not a Bunch of Law Firms and Trolls
05.15.19 False Hope for Patent Maximalists and Litigation Zealots
05.16.19 Stanford’s NPE Litigation Database Makes a Nice Addition in the Fight Against Software Patent Trolls
05.18.19 Watchtroll, Composed by Patent Trolls, Calls the American Patent System “Corrupt”