Even as Congress debates legislation to stop so-called “patent trolls,” the nation’s highest patent court has just taken an important and potentially more useful step on its own. Read More

New research and opinions from a number of academic sources have risen to the top of our crowded desks this week. Read More

Something new is happening in the heated political debate over patents and the alleged flood of lawsuits brought by so-called patent trolls: cooler voices are starting to prevail. Read More

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued its much-anticipated report today on the increasing volume of patent litigation and the role of non-practicing entities – aka “trolls” –that own patents but don’t actually manufacture products based on those patents. Read More

There is a real problem with so-called “patent trolls,” and the heart of the problem is frivolous lawsuits. Some critics come close to arguing that every patent assertion by a "non-practicing entity" – a firm that doesn't manufacture the patented inventions itself – is frivolous. But that's not the case. Read More