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
05.02.18 Links 2/5/2018: Focus on New Ubuntu and Fedora, Deb Nicholson joins Conservancy
04.12.19 Links 12/4/2019: Mesa 19.0.2, Rust 1.34.0 and Flatpak 1.3.2 Released