Yesterday, the Supreme Court announced their decision in Alice Corporation Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank International, which invalidated the patents at issue. There's a "big picture" here, but there's some smaller, more intriguing parts of the decision that are going to keep our brains working for the next few days. On the big picture side, [...]
ACT | The App Association is disappointed with the news that patent reform is no longer on the Senate agenda. It is regrettable that the inability of Congress to advance widely supported legislation will expose many small companies to predatory litigation. Patent trolls use bogus patents to shakedown startups and smaller [...]
ACT | The App Association today brings 50 software companies from across the country to the nation's capital for its annual Washington Fly In. On Monday, participants will attend the ACT Conference on the Mobile Economy. On Tuesday they conduct over 125 meetings with Senators, Members of Congress, FTC Commissioners, [...]
The Senate had a briefing this morning for staff working on patent legislation. I was invited to make a presentation on the controversial covered business method patent extension which was dropped from the House bill to ensure its passage there. I outlined the reasons why the Senate should leave it [...]
Morgan Reed, Executive Director of the Association for Competitive Technology, issued the following statement in support of the House passage of H.R. 3309, the Innovation Act. Small tech companies are pleased to see widespread support in Washington for legislation that helps them fight back against unscrupulous litigators. We heard from [...]