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Watchtroll

Watchtroll, or "IP Watchdog" as it calls itself, is a strident site that mostly represents the interests of patent trolls.

  • 12.29.16 Software Patents Continue to Collapse, But IBM, Watchtroll and David Kappos Continue to Deny and Antagonise It
  • 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
  • 07.16.17 Those Who Endlessly Attacked Michelle Lee Now Attack Supporters of PTAB, Not Just PTAB
  • 09.12.17 Patent Maximalism Duo: Watchtroll and Patently-O Now Conjoined and Mutually Referencing One Another
  • 09.13.17 EPO Gets Together With Patent Radicals to Promote Software Patents
  • 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
  • 06.03.18 The Patent Microcosm is Spinning Berkheimer Again, Hoping to Compel Politicians to Undermine Section 101 and Promote Software Patents
  • 06.03.18 Watchtroll Continues to Attack Officials Who Favour Technology Over Law Firms and This Time Zoe Lofgren is the Target
  • 07.24.18 Watchtroll Reaffirms Its Hatred of Science and Technology, Continues to Attack the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB)
  • 08.13.18 Gene Quinn and ‘Dallas Innovates’ as Couriers of Agenda for Patent Trolls Like iPEL
  • 09.09.18 Watchtroll Calls Company That Defends Itself From Patent-Trolling-Like Behaviour a ‘Patent Troll’


  • 01.28.10 Patents Roundup: Novell Gets More Software Patents, Patent Watchtroll Gene Quinn is Sued, Microsoft Writer Slams Firefox for Protesting Against Patents
  • 07.07.10 Patents Roundup: Call to “Abolish Software Patents”, FFmpeg Has No Patent Danger, and Patent WatchTroll Looks Like “Pure Satire”
  • 12.21.16 “China” is to Watchtroll (and the Bucket of Patent Maximalists) What “Russia” is to Clinton and DNC
  • 01.05.17 Watchtroll a Fake News Site in Lobbying Mode and Attack Mode Against Those Who Don’t Agree (Even PTAB and Judges)
  • 01.24.17 The Ugly Face of Watchtroll: Attacking the Director of the US Patent Office, Calling on Trump to Sack Her
  • 03.03.17 Watchtroll, IAM and Other Patent Maximalists Lobby Donald Trump, Neil Gorsuch and Others for Patent Maximalism
  • 04.01.17 Watchtroll, IAM, and the Plot to Overthrow Patent Reformer at the USPTO in Order to Make Litigation (and Trolls) Great Again
  • 07.20.17 PTAB Persists and AIA Dominates in Spite of Smears and Bullying From Patent Extremists Including Watchtroll
  • 07.23.17 IBM and Watchtroll, Together With Microsoft, Among the Driving Forces for Resurgence of Software Patents
  • 08.15.17 ‘US Inventor’ is an Extremist Group Created by Watchtroll (Not Inventors) to Troll the USPTO for Patent Maximalism
  • 08.30.17 Dennis Crouch, Joined by Gene Quinn (Watchtroll), Still Attacking PTAB to Protect Patent Trolls and Software Patents
  • 09.15.17 Watchtroll Helps the EPO Peddle Fake News About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 10.29.17 AIPLA, Watchtroll (the Trolls’ Lobby) and Other Pressure Groups Are Still Trying to Eliminate/Weaken PTAB and Section 101
  • 12.07.17 Watchtroll, AIPPI, Bristows and Others Keep Pushing Software Patents Agenda (in Spite of the Ban)
  • 12.31.17 Michael Frakes and Melissa Wasserman Complain About Low Patent Quality While Watchtroll Lobbies to Lower It Further
  • 01.09.18 Watchtroll is Where Information and Facts Come to Die in the Name of PTAB Bashing (Trolls’ Lobbying)
  • 02.04.18 The Latest Attacks on PTAB Are Old News or Smears Recycled by Watchtroll et al.
  • 02.11.18 Watchtroll’s PTAB Bashing Agenda Now Exploits ‘the Children’
  • 03.10.18 Watchtroll is Back to Attacking Judges of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Because It Can’t Tolerate Justice
  • 04.01.18 Watchtroll and Patent Docs Do Anything They Can to Undermine PTAB, Even Adopting and Defending a Patent “Scam”
  • 04.13.18 David Barcelou May or May Not be a Patent Troll, But He is Certainly a SLAPPing Bully and Watchtroll is Fine With It
  • 04.15.18 IAM, Patently-O and Watchtroll (the Patent Trolls’ Lobby) Try to Stop Patent Oppositions/Petitions (PTAB)
  • 05.06.18 Patents Roundup: Nintendo, Watchtroll’s Lies, Judge Reyna’s Latest Decision (Disc Disease), and Bayh-Dole
  • 06.04.18 Watchtroll Continues to Attack Judges and Wants Us to Think That All Opponents of Patent Trolls Are Just ‘Google’
  • 06.24.18 Watchtroll’s Reaffirmed Hatred Towards Science and Technology, Shattering the Myth About Patent Law Firms Trying to ‘Help’ Innovation
  • 07.19.18 When Amplifying the Message of ‘Global Innovation Index 2018′ IP Watch Sounds Like WIPO and IP Watchdog (Watchtroll)
  • 07.29.18 Watchtroll Demonstrates Disdain and Scorn for Science and Technology; IBM is Happy to Cooperate
  • 08.06.18 Agenda and Lies From Watchtroll Make It Into the Bill of Rohrabacher, the “Inventor Protection Act”
  • 09.08.18 Watchtroll is Attacking the Federal Circuit for the ‘Thoughtcrime’ of Pursuing Patent Quality
  • 09.16.18 IAM, Watchtroll and the EPO Still Spread the Mentality of Patent Maximalism
  • 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
  • 03.12.19 Watchtroll Has Redefined “Trolls” to Mean Those Who Oppose Software Patents (and Oppose Trolls), Not Those Who Leverage These for Blackmail Alone
  • 05.18.19 Watchtroll, Composed by Patent Trolls, Calls the American Patent System “Corrupt”


  • 01.27.10 Patents Roundup: A Week’s Worth, Links and Snippets Only
  • 02.26.10 Patents Roundup: Google Versus Patent Trolls, Patents Unrest, Microsoft’s Friend Fraunhofer to Report on Software Patents in Europe
  • 05.10.10 “Patent Law for Computer Scientists” Should be Named “Computer Science for Patent Lawyers”
  • 05.27.10 Lawyers Love Software Patents, Developers Do Not
  • 06.01.10 Proponents of Microsoft Come to Grips With Microsoft’s Sheer Aggression Using Software Patents
  • 06.02.10 What a Difference Patentability of Software Makes: Microsoft #3 in USPTO, #33 in EPO
  • 06.18.10 Lessons to the UK-IPO and EPO, Courtesy of USPTO Failure
  • 06.29.10 Bilski Case Analyses: Good News, Bad News
  • 08.06.10 Bilski Interpretation From Patent Lawyers
  • 08.13.10 Novell, Patent Lawyers, and Gartner Group a Major Part of the Software Patents Problem
  • 08.24.10 Patent Trolls Still Rejoice and David Kappos is Change We Can’t Believe in
  • 08.31.10 Why Paul Allen (Interval Patent Troll) Targets Companies That Do Not Cross-license With (or Pay) Microsoft
  • 10.13.10 Patents Roundup: Microsoft’s and Acacia’s New Patents, Patent Lawyers Vilify Free Software, Oracle Wants “IP of All Kinds”
  • 11.18.10 Canadian Government to Challenge Amazon’s Spreading of Software/BM Patents, Which Red Hat Wants Abolished and Microsoft Still Collects
  • 11.27.10 Amazon is Shielding a Monopoly by Subverting Laws
  • 01.11.11 Microsoft-run Patent Cartel Retreats Following Formal Complaint, But Why? (Updated)
  • 01.16.11 Novell Does More Harm Than Good at This Stage
  • 01.17.11 Justice Department’s National Security Chief Becomes a ‘Patent Terrorist’ for Microsoft’s Nathan Myhrvold
  • 02.07.11 Belittling the ‘Open Source Community’ for Stance on Patents, Worshipping Microsoft Patents
  • 04.06.11 FFII President Denounces Google’s Bid for Patents
  • 11.01.11 Latest Analysis of Patent Assault on Linux
  • 10.11.12 Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Promotes Software Patents
  • 03.11.13 Patent Trolls Increasingly Recognised as an Issue, Taking Attention Away From Software Patents as Key Issue
  • 05.04.13 The European Patent Office is Breaking the Law Regarding Software Patents, German Parliament Finally Complains
  • 07.25.13 Debate About Patents Focused Only on Trolls
  • 07.16.14 Software Patent Applications Already Being Rejected in the US Owing to SCOTUS Ruling, Some Patent Lawyers Are Fuming
  • 10.20.14 How Patent Lawyers Analyze Alice v. CLS Bank
  • 12.14.14 Software Patents Are Dying in the US, But Patent Lawyers Refuse to Admit It
  • 07.02.15 Patent Lawyers and Corporate Media Nervous About New Patents Barrier/Reality (Less Patents on Software and Business Methods)
  • 07.22.15 Terminology of Patent Lawyers and Pro-Patents Media Serves to Mislead the Public
  • 11.19.15 AllThingsFRAND: The Latest Incarnation (Anti-Linux/Android, Pro-Patents) of Microsoft-Leaning AstroTurf Group Association for Competitive Technology
  • 11.19.15 Patent Lawyers Want to Bring Software Patents (Hence Patent Trolls Too) to Europe, Piggyback Battistelli’s Habitual UPC Promotion
  • 02.01.16 Slides of New Talk Which Explains the Connection Between the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Software Patents
  • 02.07.16 The Alice Case Continues to Smash Software Patents (This Time OpenTV’s); Will the EPO Ever Pay Attention?
  • 04.02.16 Biased IAM’s Editor in Chief Goes on the Offensive Against (Software) Patent Sceptics, Still a Trolls Denialist
  • 04.18.16 Say the Truth About the US Patent System, Get Attacked by the Patent Propaganda Machine (Disguised as Press)
  • 04.24.16 ES: Di la Verdad Acerca del Sistema de Patentes de los EE.UU., Conseguiras Ser Atacado por la Máquina Propagandistica de Patentes (Disfrazada de Prensa)
  • 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
  • 07.02.16 Patents Roundup: Patent Maximalism, Apple’s Patent Deception, and Failure of Patent-Centric Media to Name and Shame Patent Trolls
  • 07.08.16 Conflicts of Interest and Payments From Large Corporations Bias Coverage of Patents in the News
  • 07.09.16 Battistelli and Team UPC Working Behind Closed Doors to Overcome Brexit and Impose Patent Injustice
  • 07.11.16 ES: Battistelli y el Equipo UPC Trabajando a Puertas Cerradas para Sobreponerse a Brexit e Imponer la Injusticia de Patentes
  • 07.17.16 The Impotence of Gene Quinn
  • 07.24.16 The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) Comes Across as Against Software Patents, Relates to the EPO as Well
  • 07.26.16 The Death of Software Patents and Microsoft’s Coup Against Yahoo! Made the Company Worthless
  • 07.27.16 Software Patents a Dying Breed, But Patent Lawyers in Denial Over it and Notorious Judge Rodney Gilstrap Ignores Alice (Supreme Court)
  • 08.08.16 Software Patents Not Potent in the United States Anymore, But Threat of Resurgence Persists Inside CAFC
  • 08.16.16 Personal Audio LLC and Patent Troll Jim Logan Demonstrate the Harms of Software Patents and Why They Must Never Spread to Europe
  • 08.22.16 The Collapse of Software Patents and Patent Law Firms Trying to “Overcome” Alice
  • 08.25.16 PTAB Emerges as Hero of USPTO Because Quality of Patents Improves, Software Patents Are Effectively Dead (or Dying Once Reassessed)
  • 08.26.16 Being for Patent Quality or Against Patenting Excess Does Not Make You Anti-Patents
  • 08.28.16 The United States Has Gotten Over Software Patents
  • 08.29.16 Let Them Eat Patents
  • 09.04.16 Death of Software Patents Almost Everywhere Except the Eastern District of Texas
  • 09.04.16 The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is Getting More Outspoken in Activism Regarding Patents, Finally Taking on Universities That Feed Trolls and Academic Parasite Elsevier
  • 09.11.16 USPTO Fraud Accusations and the ‘Coverup’ Attempt by USPTO Circles Inside the Corporate Media
  • 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 Patent Trial and Appeal Board Under Attack by Law Firms, Which Will Soon Infiltrate It in the Form of ‘Bar Association’
  • 09.20.16 Microsoft and Patent Law Firms in the United States Can’t Stop Writing About McRo in a Coordinated Push to Resurrect Software Patents
  • 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)
  • 09.27.16 Beware the Patent Law Firms Insinuating That Software Patents Are Back Because of McRO
  • 09.27.16 The US Supreme Court Might Soon Tighten Patent Scope in the United States Even Further, the USPTO Produces Patent Maximalism Propaganda
  • 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
  • 10.04.16 Radio Silence in the Quarters of Patent Lawyers as Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) Likely Ends Software Patents
  • 10.10.16 Towards the End of Patent Trolls in the United States
  • 10.10.16 Towards the End of Software Patents in the United States
  • 10.12.16 Patents Roundup: Blackjack Patent Application, Apple’s Software and Design Patents, Decline in Patent Litigation and Alternating Troll Trends
  • 10.12.16 Software Patents Are Going Away and Their Proponents Fight Back Harder Than Before
  • 10.30.16 An Update on the Apple v Samsung Patent Cases — Cases That Apple Must Lose in Order for Linux to ‘Win’
  • 10.30.16 FTC Slams Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs), Effectively Patent Trolls, Which Are a Growing Problem in Europe
  • 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
  • 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
  • 11.28.16 Patents Roundup: Patent Trolls, Patent Quality, and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”)
  • 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
  • 12.05.16 Microsoft’s Push for Software Patents Another Reminder That There is No ‘New’ Microsoft
  • 12.06.16 Lobbying Disguised as ‘Reporting’ by the Patent Microcosm, Which Wants More Patents and More Lawsuits (Lawyers Needed)
  • 12.12.16 Software Patents Battles: Lobby to Restore US Software Patents, IBM’s and Google’s Positions on the Subject, and Microsoft/Intellectual Ventures With Their Ongoing Attacks on Linux
  • 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 The USPTO Helps Large Businesses Crush Small Businesses
  • 12.18.16 Hijacking the Dialogue: How Patent Law Firms Distort the Record on Software Patents in the United States
  • 12.22.16 IAM is Still the EPO’s Favourite Propaganda Mill
  • 01.11.17 The Patent Microcosm is Already Sucking up to Donald Trump in an Effort to Enrich Itself at Everyone’s Expense
  • 01.15.17 America Invents Act Improved Patent Quality, But Right Wingers Threaten to Make It Worse Again
  • 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
  • 01.20.17 Michelle Lee, USPTO Director, Should Recognise That the Patent Microcosm is Her Enemy Which Hates Her
  • 01.20.17 In an Age of Necessary Patent Reform and Permanent Uncertainty for Software Patents the Patent Microcosm Looks for Workarounds and Spin
  • 01.23.17 Patent Trolls Like Finjan Holdings and Thomas Edison; the Latest Loss for Software Patents in the US and Their Move to China
  • 01.26.17 Matt Levy (Computer and Communications Industry Association) Welcomes Michelle Lee as USPTO Director
  • 01.26.17 US Supreme Court Poised to Limit Patent Scope Even Further and Hamper Trolls-Friendly Courts
  • 01.27.17 Ray Niro’s Troll Firm Has Collapsed, the Patent Microcosm Scrambles to Stop Patent Reform and Even Attacks Michelle Lee (USPTO Director)
  • 02.06.17 IBM is Attacking Patent Reform and is Lobbying for Resurgence of Software Patents
  • 02.07.17 Software Patents Are Going Away and Their Proponents Have Nothing Left But Personal Attacks on Michelle Lee
  • 02.09.17 Good News on the Patent Trolls Front as Collapse of Such Parasitic Firms Continues, US Government Signals Ongoing Reform
  • 02.13.17 The Patent Microcosm Resorts to Fake News and Misinformation in a Desperate Effort to Convince Trump to ‘Pull a Reagan’ (Patent Maximalism)
  • 02.14.17 IBM Has Become an Enemy of GNU/Linux and a Loud Proponent of Software Patents
  • 02.15.17 Center for Intellectual Property Understanding (CIPU) is a Lobby Group for Software Patents and Patent Maximalism
  • 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 Michelle Lee is Still “in Charge” of the US Patent System
  • 02.20.17 No, Doing Mathematical Operations on a Processor Does Not Make Algorithms Patent-Eligible
  • 02.20.17 PTAB Petitioned to Help Against Patent Troll InfoGation Corp., Which Goes After Linux/Android OEMs in China
  • 02.22.17 Software Patents Are Ebbing Away, But the “Swamp” Fights Back and Hijacks the Word “Fix”
  • 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
  • 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
  • 03.01.17 Now is the Time to Sign the Petition Against the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 03.04.17 Using “China!” and Distortion of Data From Lex Machina, the Litigation Lobby Promotes Software Patents
  • 03.05.17 PTAB and CAFC Crush Patents on Business Methods and Software, So Dennis Crouch Tries to Slow Them Down
  • 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
  • 03.08.17 Latest EPO ‘Results’ Should be Grounds for Immediate Dismissal of Battistelli Rather Than Celebrations
  • 03.08.17 The European Patent Office is Wasting Its Already Limited Budget on Misleading Press Releases/Paid-for Coverage That Overlook Sharp Decline in Patent Quality
  • 03.12.17 The Patent Microcosm is Lobbying by Shaming, Typically for Patent Maximalism in the United States and Elsewhere
  • 03.13.17 What Appears Like News Sites or Blogs About Patents and ‘IP’ Got Polluted by Lobbying That Peddles Corporate Agenda
  • 03.14.17 Unitary Patent (UPC) Misinformation in Spanish Media and EPO-Connected (Paid) Media That Lobbies Spain
  • 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
  • 03.21.17 As Expected, the Patent Microcosm is Already Interfering, Lobbying and Influencing Supreme Court Justices
  • 03.21.17 In the US Patent System, Evolved Tricks for Bypassing Invalidations of Software Patents and Getting Them Granted by the USPTO
  • 03.22.17 Protectionism v Sharing: How the US Supreme Court Decides Patent Cases
  • 03.28.17 With Important Supreme Court Decisions Looming, Mainstream Media Tackles Patent Trolls
  • 04.02.17 The Litigation Lobby is Causing Chaos in Patent Offices, Still in a Coordinated Effort to Convert Patents Into Nothing But Legal Chaos That Harms Science
  • 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 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
  • 04.16.17 IAM is a Think Tank for Patent Trolls, Software Patents, the EPO, Microsoft, and Whoever Else is Willing to Pay
  • 04.16.17 Alice Decision and PTAB Are Both Constantly Under Attack From the Patent Microcosm and Its Lobbyists
  • 04.17.17 Patents Roundup: Microsoft, Embargo, Tax Evasion, Surveillance, and Censorship
  • 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)
  • 04.25.17 In the US and Elsewhere, Qualcomm’s Software Patents Are a Significant Tax Everyone Must Pay
  • 04.28.17 United for Patent Reform Defends USPTO Director Michelle Lee From Attacks by the Patent Microcosm
  • 04.29.17 RecogniCorp v Nintendo is Another Nail in the Coffin of Software Patents in the United States
  • 04.30.17 Alice">High Courts in the United States Still Neither Grappling/Interfering With PTAB Nor Overturning Alice
  • 05.02.17 The Patent Microcosm and Its Ludicrous New Narrative/Tale That Patent Reform is a Plot of Large Corporations
  • 05.02.17 Alice, PTAB, and Patent Reform (AIA)">The Patent Microcosm Still Demonises Alice, PTAB, and Patent Reform (AIA)
  • 05.04.17 Latest WIPO Scandal, Echoing EPO Scandals, Demonstrates Freedom of the Press Coming Under Attack From International Patent Institutions
  • 05.07.17 The Patent Microcosm’s Failed Push for Software Patents Resurgence in the US and Similar Attempts in India and China
  • 05.14.17 IBM and Its Revolving Doors Lobby Are Plotting to Undermine Supreme Court Rulings to Restore Patentability of Software
  • 05.14.17 3 Years After the Alice Case at the Supreme Court the Plague of Software Patents is Easier to Cope With
  • 05.22.17 Great News: While IBM et al Try to Undermine Patent Reform the Supreme Court Deepens the Reform in TC Heartland Case
  • 06.25.17 After Latest Supreme Court Rulings on Patents, Including Impression v Lexmark, the Federal Circuit is Left Disgraced
  • 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
  • 06.25.17 As Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Ramps Up Its Campaign Against Software Patent Trolls the Patent Microcosm Attacks the Messenger (EFF)
  • 06.25.17 In Sandoz v Amgen, the Federal Circuit is Again Found to Have Delivered Patent Injustice
  • 07.02.17 India Continues to Reject Software Patents in Spite of Pressure From Foreign Companies Like IBM
  • 07.02.17 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is Under Attack From the Patent Microcosm, Which Wants It Not to Exist Anymore
  • 07.09.17 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 Microsoft-Owned LinkedIn is Ramping Up Software Patents Pursuits, Maybe Lawsuits
  • 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 Patent Reform in the United States is Led by the Supreme Court, Not Industrial Lobbies
  • 07.26.17 The Patent Microcosm Tries to Persuade the Headless USPTO to Crush Alice
  • 07.29.17 Loud Proponents of Software Patents Continue to Bemoan Alice and Seek Workarounds
  • 07.31.17 The War on CAFC, on Alice and on Patent Reform is Getting Ugly
  • 08.01.17 The Section 101 USPTO ‘Debate’ (for a ‘Report’) is a Bunch of Lawyers Debating Among Themselves, No Engineers/Scientists Involved
  • 08.02.17 EPO: Germans “Discover That Behind the Mad Figures, the Granted Patents Are of Crap Quality and That This Does Not Serve Their Interests”
  • 08.03.17 Trolls Roundup: Buying up the Competition Using Patents and the Post-TC Heartland Figures
  • 08.12.17 PTAB Crushes Another Patent Troll and Patently-O Scrambles to Defend the Trolls, Not the EFF
  • 08.12.17 Pro-PTAB Lobbying Leaves the Patent Microcosm Squirming, Lying
  • 08.17.17 Media Dominated by the Patent Microcosm Spreads Myths and Defends Patent Trolls, Collectors
  • 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 PTAB Crushes Software Patents and Patent Extremists Are Not Happy About It
  • 08.22.17 News About Patents Dominated by Patent Trolls/Aggressors, Their Press Releases, and Sympathisers
  • 08.23.17 Ahead of Supreme Court Decision, the Patent Microcosm is Trying to Scandalise PTAB
  • 08.24.17 Patent Trolls Network-1 and Microsoft-Connected Finjan and Intellectual Ventures in the News Again
  • 08.26.17 Donald Trump Wants a Patent Maximalist in Charge of the USPTO
  • 08.27.17 Post-Alice § 101 Eliminates Most Software Patents, But Amid Heavy Lobbying § 101 is Not Secured
  • 08.29.17 Virtually the Whole Technology Sector Supports PTAB, But Dennis Crouch Supports Patent Trolls and Bullies Instead
  • 09.02.17 Patently-O’s War on the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Continues
  • 09.05.17 Dominion Harbor is an Internet Troll as Well as a Patent Troll
  • 09.11.17 Latest Assaults on PTAB and More PTAB Bashing, This Time by Anticipat
  • 09.15.17 The UPC Fantasy is Going Nowhere as Complaints and Paperwork Pile Up
  • 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
  • 09.17.17 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Under Attack by IBM and Other Patent Parasites Who Undermine Patent Quality
  • 09.23.17 The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) Gradually Champions Patent Quality, in a Spectacular Reversal on Its Past Ways
  • 09.23.17 The Mohawk-PTAB Fiasco Threatens the Tribe’s Reputation More Than It Threatens PTAB
  • 09.24.17 PTAB Supreme Court Case (Oil States) is a Case of Patent Parasites Versus the Producing Industry
  • 09.26.17 Rodney Gilstrap Dubbed “America’s Worst Patent Judge” Having Long Facilitated Trolls for Gains
  • 09.26.17 Dying Computer Giants Turn Patents Into an Extortion Racket
  • 10.01.17 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is Still Defended by Technology Companies and Heckled by Those Who Tax Them
  • 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
  • 10.04.17 Momentum of PTAB is Growing and Political/Industrial Support is Growing Too
  • 10.07.17 Gains for PTAB Supporters and Excuses From PTAB Opponents (the Litigation/Trolling ‘Industry’)
  • 10.08.17 Microsoft Lobbying, the EPO, and Software Patents Disguised as ‘Internet of Things’
  • 10.08.17 Patent Microcosm, Patent Media and Patent Office: “It’s a Big Club and You Ain’t in It”
  • 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 IAM is Wrong, the Narrative Isn’t Changing, Except in the Battistelli-Funded (at EPO’s Expense) Financial Times
  • 10.21.17 In the United States, the Patent ‘Industry’ is a Dying Breed and China Adopts This Destructive Force
  • 10.28.17 Big News if True: USPTO to Stop Issuing Software Patents Altogether (Citing Section 101)
  • 10.29.17 The Patent Trolls’ Lobby is Upset About TC Heartland, Tries to Belittle Its Impact While Promoting Software Patents
  • 11.02.17 The Screws Tighten on Benoît Battistelli as His Departure is Just Two Seasons Away, Media Still Largely Complicit
  • 11.04.17 The Patent Trolls’ Lobby Advocates More and More Patent Lawsuits (Litigation ‘Industry’ Profits)
  • 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
  • 11.14.17 Patents Roundup: Packet Intelligence, B.E. Technology, Violin, and Square
  • 11.19.17 PTAB is Safe, the Patent Extremists Just Try to Scandalise It Out of Sheer Desperation
  • 11.19.17 Alice Remains a Strong Precedential Decision and the Media Has Turned Against Software Patents
  • 11.21.17 Chinese Patent Policy Continues to Mimic All the Worst Elements of the American System
  • 11.26.17 Patently-O is Still Trying to Derail Patent Reform in the United States
  • 11.26.17 Oral Arguments in Oil States Energy Services v Greene’s Energy Group (PTAB Case) Are About to Start
  • 11.29.17 PTAB Will Survive the Supreme Court, Admit Even Foes of PTAB Based on This Week’s Hearings
  • 11.30.17 The Patent Trolls’ Lobby is Already Pushing for the USPTO to Help Make Patent Trolls “Great Again”
  • 12.03.17 IAM in Think Tank Mode Promotes Patent Maximalism, Characteristically Sponsored by the Patent Microcosm
  • 12.05.17 PTAB, Which Invalidates Software Patents, is Still Under Attack Using Lies From Sites Like Patently-O
  • 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
  • 12.10.17 Next Director of the USPTO Parrots Talking Points of Patent Extremists and Their Lobbyists
  • 12.10.17 Yes, RPost is Definitely a Patent Troll and Its Software Patents Are at Risk Thanks to Alice
  • 12.12.17 No, China Isn’t Most Innovative, It’s Just Granting a Lot of Low-Quality Patents
  • 12.12.17 PTAB Haters Fail to Guard Bogus Patents, But They Still Try
  • 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
  • 12.18.17 Patent Misconceptions Promoted in Media Dominated by the Patent Microcosm, Not Actual Innovators
  • 12.19.17 PTAB Bashing in the US and the Attack on the Boards of Appeal in Europe All About Lowering Patent Quality
  • 12.24.17 Post-Alice, the Patent Microcosm is Up in Arms and Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel for Anti-Alice Material
  • 12.30.17 Instead of Worrying About Alice, the Patent Microcosm Ought to Accept That Software Patents Have Been Rendered Obsolete by Software Copyrights
  • 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
  • 01.04.18 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Makes Precedential a Decision on Patent Troll Skky LLC
  • 01.04.18 Software Patents Are Still Being Rejected in the United States (New Examples), But the Anti-Alice Lobby Goes on
  • 01.06.18 The Federal Circuit (High Patent Court) is Still No Friend of Patent Maximalists and Microsoft Cases Are Belatedly Recalled by Them
  • 01.06.18 When All That’s Left is a Bunch of Patents: Stories of IBM, Finjan, Ericsson, and Citrix
  • 01.07.18 PTAB Squashes Patent Trolls So the Patent Trolls’ Lobby is Attacking PTAB on a Daily Basis
  • 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
  • 01.08.18 The Patent Microcosm is Setting Up a Huge Number of Anti-§ 101 Events in an Effort to Thwart Alice and Promote Software Patents
  • 01.10.18 Jo Johnson’s Departure is Another Major Blow for Team UPC (Unified Patent Court)
  • 01.13.18 Top Rank at USPTO Goes to the Biggest Patent Bully, IBM
  • 01.13.18 The Patent Trolls’ Lobby is Happy That Rep. Darrell Issa is Leaving Because He Fought Against Patent Trolls
  • 01.14.18 PTAB is Being Demeaned, But Only by the Very Entities One Ought to Expect (Because They Hate Patent Justice/Quality)
  • 01.14.18 Blockchain Becomes the Target Not Only of Financial Institutions With Software Patents But Also Trolls
  • 01.14.18 The Patent Microcosm Thinks It’s Wonderful That IP3 is Selling Stupid Patents, Ignores Far More Important News
  • 01.14.18 Automotives, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 Among the Buzz Terms Used to Bypass Alice and the EPC Nowadays
  • 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
  • 01.16.18 EPO Management and Team UPC Carry on Lying About Unified Patent Court, Sinking to New Lows in the Process
  • 01.18.18 Microsoft, Masking/Hiding Itself Behind Patent Trolls, is Still Engaging in Patent Extortion
  • 01.19.18 The EPO Ignores This Week’s Decision Which Demonstrates Patent Scope Gone Awry; Software Patents Brought Up Again
  • 01.20.18 Cheating the US Patent System is a Lot Harder After TC Heartland
  • 01.20.18 Patent Litigation in East Asia: Huawei, Samsung, HTC, Nintendo and COLOPL
  • 01.20.18 RPX Might Soon be Owned by Patent Troll Erich Spangenberg
  • 01.21.18 Patent Troll Finjan Looks Like It’s About to Collapse, But Patent Maximalists Exploit It for Software Patents Promotion
  • 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 Litigation and Patent Trolls Are Moving to China, Which is Bad for American Litigators But Great for American Technology Firms
  • 01.28.18 The Patent Microcosm Maintains the Illusion That Relative US Demise (e.g. in Innovation) is Due to Patent Reform
  • 01.28.18 The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) Revisits ‘Divided Infringement’
  • 01.28.18 The Anti-PTAB (Patent Trial and Appeal Board) Lobby is Partly Funded by the Koch Brothers and the Right Wing
  • 01.28.18 An Uphill Battle for Software Patents in the United States, Except When Catchphrases and Buzzwords Are Used
  • 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 The Lobby for Software Patents — Including Microsoft-Connected Law Firms — Clings Onto One Patent From a Microsoft-Sponsored Patent Troll
  • 01.30.18 St. Regis Mohawk Nation Now Exploited as a Lobby and an Attack Vector Against PTAB
  • 02.01.18 Patent Sharks Hope to Regain Control of the US Patent System With Iancu Appointment Likely Just 4 Days Away
  • 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 The So-called ‘Big Pharma’ Industry is Hoping to Weaken If Not Eliminate PTAB
  • 02.04.18 PTAB’s Chief Judge David Ruschke Responds to the Smears From the Anti-PTAB Lobby
  • 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 ‘Women in IP’: When the Gender Card is Used to Distract From Patent Policy
  • 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 Big Oil Companies, Acting Through Conservative Think Tanks, Want to Sink PTAB
  • 02.11.18 As Andrei Iancu Takes Office (USPTO) Calls to Preserve PTAB Are Issued by Trade Groups of Technology Firms
  • 02.11.18 SSH Communications and UnitedCorp Use Bogus Software Patents to Shake Down Large Firms
  • 02.11.18 The Patent Trolls’ Lobby, IAM, Does Puff Pieces for GE’s Patent Litigation Arm (Soon to Keynote IAM Event)
  • 02.12.18 Denialists of Patent Trolls Are at It Again
  • 02.13.18 The Campaign to Subvert the US Patent Office by Misrepresenting Its Successes
  • 02.15.18 IBM is Getting Desperate and Now Suing Microsoft Over Lost Staff, Not Just Suing Everyone Using Patents
  • 02.15.18 In Microsoft’s Lawsuit Against Corel the Only Winner is the Lawyers
  • 02.17.18 The Patent Microcosm Takes Berkheimer v HP Out of Context to Pretend PTAB Disregards Fact-Finding Process
  • 02.18.18 Bejin Bieneman Props Up the Disgraced Randall Rader for Litigation Agenda
  • 02.18.18 Software Patents Trickle in After § 101/Alice, But Courts Would Not Honour Them Anyway
  • 02.19.18 The Patent ‘Industry’ Likes to Mention Berkheimer and Aatrix to Give the Mere Impression of Section 101/Alice Weakness
  • 02.19.18 PTAB Continues to Invalidate a Lot of Software Patents and to Stop Patent Examiners From Issuing Them
  • 02.20.18 The Patent Trolls’ Lobby is Distorting the Record of CAFC on PTAB
  • 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 Arguing With Patent Maximalists is Not Arguing With People Who Care for Facts and Reason
  • 02.25.18 As Japan Moves Towards Reducing Patent Lawsuits and Curbing SEP Abuse Will the United States Follow Suit?
  • 02.25.18 PTAB Continues to Enforce Section 101 and New Paper From Christopher Walker and Melissa Wasserman Has Suggestions for Agency Head Review
  • 02.25.18 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
  • 02.26.18 With PTAB’s Growing Role in Assessing Patent Applications, Pursuing Software Patents is a Dangerous Gamble
  • 02.26.18 Marketing and Lobbying Disguised as ‘Articles’ and Microsoft-Connected Firms That Promote Software Patents and a Microsoft Racket
  • 02.27.18 IBM Has Become More of a Patent Broker Rather Than a Genuine Technology Company
  • 02.27.18 CAFC and PTAB Are Both Being Insulted by the Patent Maximalists, Who Resort to Offensive Cartoons and Lies
  • 02.27.18 Reactions to the Collapse of Allergan’s Scam With the Mohawk Tribe
  • 03.01.18 The European Patent Office (EPO) Should Lead the Way in Combating Patents on Nature and on Life
  • 03.03.18 In Order to Thwart Patent Reform (AIA) the Patent Microcosm Makes a Caricature of the United States
  • 03.04.18 Software Patent Lawsuits Against Large Technology Firms/Corporations Should Ideally Fail and Result in Invalidation of the Patents
  • 03.04.18 The Attacks on PTAB’s Legitimacy Are Slowing Down and § 101 Continues to be Applied by PTAB
  • 03.04.18 Patents on Life Are a Cancer
  • 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
  • 03.06.18 Calling Genetics and Other Things “Life Sciences” Does Not Turn Nature Into Patentable Science
  • 03.08.18 EPO Hires External PR Agencies to Control Coverage of Its Annual Report, Deny Investigative Journalism
  • 03.08.18 Japanese and Korean Companies Don’t Pursue Patent Litigation and They’re Doing a Lot Better Than China
  • 03.09.18 The EPO’s PR Department Receives Return on Investment (Puff Pieces) for Paying the Media
  • 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
  • 03.11.18 We Shall Soon Find Out Where Trump Appointees Such as Neil Gorsuch Stand on Patent Policies
  • 03.13.18 Patent Trolls in the United States Increasingly Target Small Businesses Which Cannot Challenge Their Likely-Invalid Software Patents
  • 03.15.18 Patent Maximalists Are Still Trying to Create a Patent Bubble in India
  • 03.15.18 PTAB Continues to Increase Capacity Ahead of Oil States; Patent Maximalists Utterly Upset
  • 03.17.18 The Patent ‘Industry’ is Increasingly Mocking CAFC and Its Judges Because It Doesn’t Like the Decisions
  • 03.18.18 TXED Courts Are Causing Businesses to Leave the District, Notably For Fear That Having Any Operations Based There is a Legal Liability
  • 03.19.18 From PTAB Bashing to Federal Circuit (CAFC) Bashing: How the Patent ‘Industry’ Sells Software Patents
  • 03.19.18 Patent Maximalists Keep Coming Up With New Terms and Buzzwords to Bypass the Practical Ban on Software Patents
  • 03.20.18 35 U.S.C. § 101 is Still Effectively Tackling Software Patents in the US, But Patent Law Firms Lie/Distort to ‘Sell’ These Anyway
  • 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
  • 03.25.18 Where Opposition to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB, AIA) Has Come From Over the Past Week If Not Year
  • 03.26.18 On Media Hype, Software Patents, and 35 U.S.C. § 101 Which Annuls Both
  • 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’
  • 04.01.18 In the Wake of 35 U.S.C. §101 Eliminating Software Patents Many Patent Law Firms Are Nowadays ‘Pulling a Berkheimer’ and Pretending Everything Has Changed
  • 04.02.18 The Latest SLAPP From the Patent Microcosm Shows Just How Abusive Patent Extremists Can be Towards Their Critics
  • 04.03.18 Scam and Threat in the Mailbox Today, Courtesy of the Anti-PTAB Brigade
  • 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
  • 04.09.18 PTAB and the Federal Circuit (CAFC) Still Rejecting and Removing Dubious Patents
  • 04.11.18 More SCOTUS Patent Cases on Their Way, But Nothing That Will Change 35 U.S.C. § 101/Alice
  • 04.11.18 USPTO Will Have a Crisis of Legitimacy If Its Officials Work as Lobbyists and Cooperate With Villainous Think Tanks
  • 04.12.18 The USPTO Has a Nepotism and Lobbying Problem That Jeopardises the Rationality of US Patent Law
  • 04.19.18 Microsoft’s Lobbying for FRAND Pays Off as Microsoft-Connected Patent Troll Conversant (Formerly MOSAID) Goes After Android OEMs in Europe
  • 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
  • 04.19.18 To Understand Why People Say That Lawyers are Liars Look No Further Than Misleading Promotion of Software Patents
  • 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 Today’s European Patent Office Works for Patent Extremists and for Team UPC Rather Than for Europe or for Innovation
  • 04.22.18 In Maxon v Funai the High ‘Patent Court’ (CAFC) Reaffirms Disdain for Software Patents, Which Are Nowadays Harder to Get and Then Defend
  • 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 Mythology About Patents in the East
  • 04.23.18 The Good Work of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and the Latest Attempts to Undermine It
  • 04.24.18 Patent Maximalists Step Things Up With Director Andrei Iancu and It’s Time for Scientists to Fight Back
  • 04.24.18 The European Patent Office (EPO) Wastes a Lot of Money on External PR Agencies for Battistelli’s ‘Heist’
  • 04.24.18 Quick Mention: As Expected, the US Supreme Court Cements PTAB’s Role With Trump-Appointed Gorsuch Dissenting
  • 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
  • 04.29.18 35 U.S.C. § 101 is Still in Tact and Enforceable En Masse (Thousands of Times) by PTAB
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 05.02.18 How the Patent Microcosm and Patent Extremists Cover Oil States More Than a Week Later
  • 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 Alice/Section 101 and PTAB Continue to Eliminate Software Patents While Patent Lawyers Attempt to Distract From Oil States (US Supreme Court’s Decision)
  • 05.06.18 Software Patents Are Not Allowed in Canada, But the Patent Microcosm is Trying to Change That
  • 05.08.18 Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Continues to Deny Patents Based on Stricter Standards
  • 05.08.18 Forward Pharma an Example of the Devastating Effect of Granting Patents in Error — A Problem Appeal Boards Must Correct
  • 05.12.18 The Patent Trolls’ Lobbyists Continue to Deny That the Concept of Trolling Even Exists or Needs Addressing
  • 05.12.18 Companies in the Red Resort to Patent Litigation Rather Than Creation
  • 05.13.18 CAFC is Under Attack by the Patent Microcosm, Whose Scrutiny is Starting to Resemble PTAB-Bashing
  • 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 Evil, Truly ‘Evil’ Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and the Courts Have the Audacity to Verify/Disprove Patent Validity
  • 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
  • 05.15.18 The Anti-PTAB (Patent Quality), Anti-§ 101 Lobby is Losing Its Mind and It Has Become Amusing to Observe
  • 05.15.18 The Patent Microcosm is Still Looking for Ways to Bypass CAFC/PTAB Invalidation of Many US Patents
  • 05.19.18 CIPU is Amplifying Misleading Propaganda From the Chamber of Commerce
  • 05.20.18 In Apple v Samsung Patents That Should Never Have Been Granted May Result in a Billion Dollars in ‘Damages’
  • 05.20.18 The Attacks on the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Have Lost Momentum and the Patent Microcosm Begrudgingly Gives Up
  • 05.20.18 Software Patenting and Successful Litigation a Very Difficult Task Under 35 U.S.C. § 101
  • 05.20.18 António Campinos Will Push Toward a France-Based Unified Patent Court (UPC)
  • 05.23.18 PTAB’s Latest Applications of 35 U.S.C. § 101 and Obviousness Tests to Void U.S. Patents
  • 05.24.18 Stupid Blogs, Stupid Lawsuits, and Stupid Patents
  • 05.27.18 The Way Things Are Going in the Eastern District of Texas and Other US District Courts, South Korean Companies Might as Well Exit the US Like They Exit China
  • 05.27.18 The Patent Extremists Resort to Trump-Styled China-Baiting in an Effort to Destroy US Patent Policy
  • 05.27.18 On Ethics of Patent Lawyers
  • 05.27.18 Another Week of Federal Circuit Supporting PTAB and Acting Tough for Patent Quality in the United States
  • 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 Supreme Court Justices and 35 U.S.C. § 101 Are Fixing the USPTO, Voiding ‘Fake Patents’
  • 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
  • 05.28.18 Companies Now Have the Incentive to Remove/Move All Operations Out of the Eastern District of Texas (If Not Texas in General)
  • 05.31.18 IP Kat is Still Acting as a Propaganda Front for UPC (and EU Software Patents) Lobbying by US-Based Front Groups
  • 05.31.18 The Open Invention Network (OIN) is Becoming an Even Greater Part of the Problem, Embracing Software Patents Through Hype
  • 06.03.18 The Quality of Patents Really Matters Because Without It the Patents Will All Lose Value/Purpose
  • 06.03.18 IBM and Its Terrible Software Patents, Which Are Disguised as ‘AI’, ‘Cloud’, and More Recently ‘Blockchain’
  • 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 Keeps Attacking the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and Has the Audacity to Say PTAB is an ‘Attacker’
  • 06.03.18 TC Heartland at One: Still an Impediment to Patent Trolls and Other Patent Parasites in the United States
  • 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 Nationality and Sovereignty in AIA Era: Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Under Siege From Patent ‘Activists’
  • 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 Patents on Nature, Life and the Environment: Lessons From EPO and Australian Courts
  • 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 Instead of Smearing the Judges of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Check Why Abstract Patents Are Being Granted in the First Place
  • 06.11.18 Latest Docket Reports Show That the American Courts/Legal System Still Anything But Patents-Hostile
  • 06.12.18 Apple v Samsung Not Over, Hearing on a New Design Patent Trial Next Month
  • 06.12.18 PTAB Carries on Undeterred and Unabated, Courts Are Becoming Less Tolerant of Low-Quality Patents
  • 06.12.18 IPBC, a Patent Trolls-Funded Event of IAM, is Advancing the Attacks on Section 101/Alice
  • 06.13.18 Buzzwords and Three-Letter Acronyms Still Abused by the EPO to Grant a Lot of Patents on Algorithms
  • 06.13.18 The United States is Far Better Off With the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), So Why Do Lawyers Attack It?
  • 06.14.18 Google Gets Told Off — Even by the Typically Supportive EFF and TechDirt — Over Patenting of Software
  • 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
  • 06.15.18 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
  • 06.17.18 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
  • 06.18.18 Orrin Hatch, Sponsored the Most by the Pharmaceutical Industry, Tries to Make Its Patents Immune From Scrutiny (PTAB)
  • 06.19.18 Articles About a Unitary Patent System Are Lies and Marketing From Law Firms With ‘Lawsuits Lust’
  • 06.20.18 Patent Extremists Are Unable to Find Federal Circuit Cases That Help Them Mislead on Alice
  • 06.23.18 The United States’ Supreme Court Takes the Side of Patent Maximalists, for a Change
  • 06.23.18 Somewhat Underwhelming Reception for US Patent Number 10,000,000 (Which Actually Isn’t)
  • 06.24.18 Alice, Which Turns Four, Has Saved Billions of Dollars Previously Wasted on ‘Protection’ Money (Notably Patent Trolls)
  • 06.24.18 The Dangerous Adoption of Patents on Life and Nature
  • 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
  • 06.27.18 US Supreme Court Will Hear Helsinn v Teva, But What’s Needed Right Now is a Challenge to Patents Inside Standards (a.k.a. ‘FRAND’ or ‘SEP’)
  • 06.28.18 iPEL (Innovative Patents, Ethical Licensing) is Just Another Patent Trolls’ Scam/Ploy Disguised as ‘Ethical’
  • 07.01.18 PTAB Agrees With Patent Examiners on Rejections of Applications Based on Alice/Section 101, But Watch Out for the Spin
  • 07.01.18 Misattributed Inventions Cemented Using Patents and Frivolous Litigation
  • 07.01.18 The Patent Maximalists Are Losing the Battle Over PTAB/CAFC Policies/Caselaw, Resulting in Underhanded Tactics
  • 07.02.18 Buzzwords and Hyped-Up Patent Cases (Like Berkheimer) Are Still Being Exploited to Promote Software Patents
  • 07.02.18 Patent Law Firms Have Become Debased and Intolerant of Courts/Judges, Just Like EPO Management
  • 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
  • 07.09.18 Polaris Innovations is a Patent Troll and Polaris Industries is a Patent Aggressor
  • 07.10.18 Patent Trolls Rally/Advertise Thomas Massie’s Bill to Abolish PTAB and Promote Software Patents in the US
  • 07.11.18 The Lack of Genuine, Honest Discussion About Patent Quality Means That Under António Campinos Software Patents Will Continue to be Granted, Campinos Strives to Make Them ‘Unitary’
  • 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
  • 07.15.18 Asking the USPTO to Comply With 35 U.S.C. § 101 is Like Asking Pentagon Officials to Pursue Real, Persistent Peace
  • 07.15.18 PTAB Defended by the EFF, the R Street Institute and CCIA as the Number of Petitions (IPRs) Continues to Grow
  • 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 PTAB and § 101 (Section 101) Have Locked the Patent Parasites Out of the Patent System
  • 07.19.18 Some US Patents’ Quality is So Low That There’s a Garden Clearance/Fire Sale
  • 07.21.18 Federal Circuit Judges Moore, Dyk and Reyna Tell Allergan That It is Not Above the Law
  • 07.22.18 Patents Roundup: Patent Litigation is Down and Seems to Have Shifted Away From Software Patents
  • 07.22.18 Half a Year Later the Patent Microcosm is Still ‘Pulling a Berkheimer’ in Vain
  • 07.22.18 Can Trade Secrets Litigation Replace (in Part) Patent Litigation?
  • 07.25.18 Patent Microcosm and New USPTO Director Against Patent Quality Assurance
  • 07.26.18 Microsoft Patent Trolls and IBM Against 35 U.S.C. § 101 and for Software Patents, Blackmail
  • 07.27.18 The Patent Trolls’ Lobby, IAM, is Concerned That China is Now Treating Patent Trolls as the Criminals They Really Are (Extortion)
  • 07.29.18 A Call to Boycott IBM Over Its Serial, Systematic Acts of Patent Aggression Using Dubious Patents in Large Quantities
  • 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
  • 08.02.18 The Number of Granted US Patents is Declining and Transparency in Patent Courts is Improving
  • 08.05.18 The Anti-PTAB Lobby Still Predicting Doom and Gloom, as Usual, Despite PTAB’s Year-Over-Year Growth
  • 08.05.18 Understanding of Microsoft’s Patent Strategy Requires Scrutiny of the Patent Trolls It’s Connected to
  • 08.05.18 The Post-TC Heartland East Texas Conundrum and the Oddity of Trials by People Who Don’t Understand the Pertinent Patents
  • 08.05.18 Ericsson’s Wi-Fi Patent Thicket and Patent Trolls Like Sisvel Harm the Smallest Players in the Market
  • 08.06.18 Attributing Negligible Differences to Whatever Suits the Loudest Opponents of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB)
  • 08.07.18 The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) is Cleaning Up the United States’ Patent System
  • 08.07.18 Racing to the Bottom, the António Campinos-Led EPO Continues to Promote Software Patents, Just Like China
  • 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
  • 08.13.18 PTAB is Loathed by Patent Maximalists Because It Can Potentially Invalidate Thousands of Software Patents (More Than Courts Can Handle)
  • 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 USPTO Craziness: Changing Rules to Punish PTAB Petitioners and Reward Microsoft for Corruption at ISO
  • 08.19.18 From the Eastern District of Texas (US) to Australia Patent Quality Remains a Problem
  • 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 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 PTAB Haters (the Patent Maximalists) Hope That SCOTUS Will Save Their Quality-Reducing Agenda
  • 08.28.18 Pen One Acquisition Group is a Patent Troll Indirectly Connected to Microsoft and There’s No Simple Solution to Such Problems
  • 09.02.18 Qualcomm and AMD Want ‘Innovation’ by Embargo
  • 09.02.18 US Patent Office and Patent Courts Taking a Stand Against Submarine Patents or Patent Ambushes
  • 09.03.18 RALIA, Inventor Protection Act, STRONGER Patents Act and Other Attacks on PTAB (Because It Raises the Patent Bar)
  • 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 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
  • 09.09.18 The Battle Over PTAB Determines the Fate of Patent Quality in the United States
  • 09.12.18 The Belated Demise of Propaganda Sites of the Litigation ‘Industry’
  • 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
  • 09.16.18 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 Months After Oil States the Patent Maximalists Are Still Desperate to Crush PTAB in the Courts, Not Just in Congress and the Office
  • 09.17.18 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Helps Prevent Frivolous Software Patent Lawsuits
  • 09.18.18 The EPO Has Quit Pretending That It Cares About Patent Quality, All It Cares About is Quantity of Lawsuits
  • 09.23.18 A Lot of US Patents Are Entirely Bogus, But Apple Was Willing to Pay for Them
  • 09.23.18 Interlude: The Need to Counter Misinformation From the Patent and Litigation ‘Industry’
  • 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 Language Patent Lawyers Are Using to Warp the Debate and Decrease Public Understanding of Patents
  • 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
  • 09.26.18 Director Iancu and President Campinos Both Serve the Litigation ‘Industry’ Instead of Science and Technology
  • 09.29.18 Superficially Artificial or Artificially Superficial Patents on ‘AI’ Are Fake Patents
  • 10.01.18 The USPTO is Hopeless, Unlike Patent Courts That Have Become the Target of Ridicule by the Patent ‘Industry’
  • 10.05.18 Patents on Life and on Algorithms in Europe Will Doom the EPO
  • 10.06.18 Is Hyatt an Inventor or a Tax Evader?
  • 10.06.18 The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Obsolete for More Reasons Than the German Constitutional Court, But Team UPC in the UK Refuses to Give Up
  • 10.06.18 Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) is Not Getting Money From Apple and VirnetX Might Not Get Any, Either
  • 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
  • 10.08.18 The Federal Circuit Continues to ‘Lecture’ the Patent Office on Patent Scope and Limits, But Iancu Isn’t Listening
  • 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
  • 10.09.18 Antibody Patents Should Not be Allowed (Nor Should CRISPR Patents)
  • 10.09.18 The USPTO’s Principal Issue is Abstract Patents (or Patent Scope), Not Prior Art Searches
  • 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
  • 10.16.18 ‘Cloud’, ‘AI’ and Other Buzzwords as Excuses for Granting Fake Patents on Software
  • 10.16.18 Judge-Bashing Tactics, Undermining PTAB, and Iancu’s Warpath for the Litigation and Insurance ‘Industries’
  • 10.20.18 Unified Patents Demolishes Some More Notorious Patent Trolls and Offers Bounties to Take Down More of Them
  • 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
  • 10.24.18 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’
  • 10.26.18 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
  • 10.29.18 USPTO Under Iancu: Making Patents Low Quality (Again)
  • 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
  • 11.11.18 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 The Federal Circuit and PTAB Are Not Slowing Down; Patent Maximalists Claim It’s ‘Harassment’ to Question a Patent’s Validity
  • 11.11.18 The Patent ‘Industry’ Wants Incitations and Feuds, Not Innovation and Collaboration
  • 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
  • 11.15.18 Patent Maximalists Are Still Trying to Figure Out How to Stop PTAB or Prevent US Patent Quality From Ever Improving
  • 11.15.18 Berkheimer or No Berkheimer, Software Patents Remain Mostly Unenforceable in the United States and the Supreme Court is Fine With That
  • 11.17.18 The European Patent Office Comes up With a Plethora of New Buzzwords by Which to Refer to Software Patents
  • 11.18.18 Patent Maximalists Are Still Upset at the US Supreme Court (Over Alice) and the US Patent Office Carries on As Usual
  • 11.18.18 The European Patent Office is Attracting Patent Trolls
  • 11.19.18 The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Must Be Based on Justice, Not Profits
  • 11.24.18 EPO Nowadays Closely Associates With Site That Attacks, Insults and Calls for Resignations of Judges (Those Who Scrutinise Patents)
  • 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’
  • 11.25.18 The Demise of Software Patents in Patent Courts Worldwide Would Mean Much-Needed Staff Cuts in Litigation Giants
  • 11.26.18 No, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) Has Not Changed Its Position on Software Patents, Which Are Bunk
  • 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
  • 12.09.18 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
  • 12.10.18 Today’s USPTO Grants a Lot of Fake Patents, Software Patents That Courts Would Invalidate
  • 12.11.18 Number of Filings at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Highest in Almost Two Years
  • 12.13.18 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Decisions Still Uncontroversial Unless One Asks the Patent Maximalists
  • 12.19.18 Software Patents Are Very Weak in the United States
  • 12.28.18 The Demise of Patent Trolls and Software Patents in the US Continued in 2018
  • 01.06.19 As Expected, Director Iancu Tries to Water Down the Examiners’ Guidance in Revised Patent Subject Matter Eligibility Document
  • 01.08.19 EPO Corruption is Helping Patent Maximalists in the United States
  • 01.12.19 No, Software Patents Are Not Poised to Make a Comeback Under New US Patent Office Rules
  • 01.13.19 European Patent Office a Textbook Example of Lawless, Rogue Institutions
  • 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
  • 01.27.19 From Attacking to Stealing
  • 01.27.19 January Closes as Another Month (Among Many Months) of No Turnarounds on Software Patents
  • 01.29.19 The EPO Continues to Grant Software Patents Even Though Many European Patents Are Being Invalidated Already
  • 01.31.19 Fake Software Patents, Patent Trolls and Assault on Generic Medicine in Europe
  • 02.01.19 Stupid Acquisition of the Month (or Year): Red Hat Selling Itself to the World’s Biggest Lobbying Power for Software Patents
  • 02.07.19 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
  • 02.16.19 Nobody But Patent Trolls and Litigators Will Benefit From the Corruption of the European Patent Office
  • 02.20.19 How Long Can the EPO Bend the Rules Before the Avalanche of Invalid Software Patents?
  • 02.22.19 Battistelli’s Bodyguard Has Been Arrested, But Battistelli Should Join Him
  • 02.25.19 There is Still a Patent Quality Crisis at the EPO
  • 03.01.19 Lesson From the United States: Overly Permissive Patent Policy (Maximalism) Can Drive Technology Companies Away
  • 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
  • 03.08.19 Patent Law Firms Are Truly (and Visibly) Panicking Over the Demise of Software 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
  • 03.15.19 Stopping António Campinos and His Software Patents Agenda (Not Legal in Europe) Would Require Independent Courts
  • 03.17.19 To Team UPC the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Has Become a Joke and the European Patent Office (EPO) Never Mentions It Anymore
  • 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)
  • 03.27.19 The European Patent Scope is a Lost Cause, Does Not Exist Anymore
  • 03.27.19 The EPO is Still a Software Patents Propaganda Machine and Thus an Enemy of Software Developers in Europe
  • 03.30.19 A March in Brussels Next Month, Disgruntled EPO Staff Invited
  • 04.02.19 Artificially-Intelligent Blockchained Internet of Things Industrial Revolutionary CII or Software Patents by Any Other Name
  • 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
  • 04.05.19 The European Patent Office Will Come to Regret the Fake Patents It Has Granted for Short-Term Financial Gains
  • 04.06.19 3 Months Later (and Counting) Software Patents Remain Demolished in the United States
  • 04.08.19 Europe’s EPO Has Become France’s INPI
  • 04.09.19 The Media is (Still) Failing to Cover EPO Corruption
  • 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
  • 04.13.19 Further Decreasing Focus on Software Patents in the United States as They Barely Exist in Valid Form Anymore
  • 04.13.19 Patent Maximalists Are Enabling Injustices and Frauds
  • 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
  • 04.25.19 American Patent Courts Keep Narrowing Patent Scope, No Matter What Few Politicians Are Doing on Behalf of Litigation Firms and Patent Trolls
  • 04.29.19 Haar is Where EPO Justice Came to Meet Euthanasia
  • 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
  • 05.05.19 It’s 2019 and Team UPC is Still Composing ‘Fake News’ (Lobbying Disguised as Reporting)
  • 05.07.19 Even IAM Admits That When It Comes to Patents It’s Quality That Counts, Not Quantity
  • 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
  • 05.14.19 Patents That Were Gleefully Granted by the EPO Continue to Perish in Courts
  • 05.15.19 The Race to the Bottom of Patent Quality at the EPO
  • 05.16.19 Stanford’s NPE Litigation Database Makes a Nice Addition in the Fight Against Software Patent Trolls


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