Tag Archives: Patent Trolls

No Patent Reform in Current Congressional Term as Senate Bill Get Yanked

| June 4, 2014

The prospects for patent law reform being passed by the current Congress disappeared last week when Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt) pulled his bill after several contentious months of no consensus. The Senate’s Judiciary Committee Chairman had been fighting to get the Senate to adopt patent reform in the wake of the House of Representatives’ overwhelming […]

Patent Trolls Like Intellectual Ventures Must Be More Closely Regulated, But How?

| March 24, 2014

Patent trolls are the bane of the existence of American industry. These companies and individuals shop around for patents and patent portfolios to acquire for the sole purpose of using litigation and the threat of litigation to monetize their underlying ideas. They have no interest in the utility, social value or commercial viability of the […]