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Patents Post-Grant
Patent Reform Palooza Hits Congress Summer 2013
Competing Bills Target Patent Troll Business ModelCongress has gotten the patent troll memo in a big way. The political stage is being set for a summer of legislative festivities. Like…
Patents Post-Grant
Congress Poised To Force All Patent Trolls to PTAB
Senator Schumer Readies Second Round of Patent ReformAlthough many of the more significant changes to U.S. patent law provided by the America Invents Act (AIA) are only months old, Congress…
Retail Patent Litigation
Retail is Troll’s Hardest Hit Non-Tech Sector
Santa Clara Law Professor Colleen Chien recently wrote an interesting article on Patently-O discussing some key patent troll statistics in light of President Obama’s troll comments and the new SHIELD…
Retail Patent Litigation
Will the SHIELD Act Have the Impact Retailers Expect?
Retailers have been generally excited about the loser pays system the proposed SHIELD Act would create for trolls. But a recent iam blog discussing comments from Patent Freedom suggests the…
The IP Law Blog
The SHIELD Act – Death of the Patent Troll, or Incentive to Infringe?
On February 27, 2013, Congress proposed the “Saving High Tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes (SHIELD) Act.” This bill is designed to stem the tide of patent litigation initiated by non-practicing…
Litigation & Trial
The SHIELD Act: Baby Steps Towards Slowing The Patent Troll Epidemic
Patent trolls are back in the news again, primarily as a result of the re-introduction of the “Saving High-tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes” Act. (As The Register notes, the…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Top 10 in Law Blogs: LXBN March 11, 2013
As everyone's well aware, patent trolls are a problem—a big, annoying problem. On LXBN TV, Vincent LoTempio joins me to discuss the SHIELD Act, which will attempt to rein them…
Intellectual Property
Will the SHIELD Act Accomplish its Goal of Effectively Combatting Patent Trolls?—Vincent LoTempio
Patent trolls and the practices they employ have reached such a universally-despised state that even Republicans and Democrats have come together to fight them. The act, which was introduced by…
Retail Patent Litigation
The SHIELD Act is Back Promising a Loser Pays System for Retailers
The SHIELD Act -- Saving High-Tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes -- is back. The SHIELD Act was originally introduced in the last Congress and would have awarded costs, including reasonable…
Essential Patent Blog
RANDomness – Reps. DeFazio, Chaffetz reintroduce SHIELD Act
In a press conference held today, Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) introduced an updated version of the SHIELD (Saving High-Tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes) Act.…