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House IP Chair Says 10-Year Mark Calls For AIA Reevaluation
Law360 (May 10, 2021, 5:11 PM EDT) The chair of the U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee that handles intellectual property on Monday said the America Invents Act s 10th anniversary provides the opportunity for Congress to evaluate whether the law is working as intended.
Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., opened the American Intellectual Property Law Association s spring meeting with a keynote speech during which he said the 2011 law s milestone anniversary is a time to comprehensively evaluate what s worked and what didn t in the patent reform bill, particularly with the Patent Trial and Appeal Board it established.
Patent Troll Sable Networks Apparently Needs To Learn A Lesson: Cloudflare Wants To Destroy Another Troll
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The Princess Bride, the character of Vizzini famously says: Ha ha, you fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous of which is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well-known is this: Never go in against a Sicilian when DEATH is on the line. I don t know if it s surpassed either of those yet, but quickly moving up the list would be Never try to patent troll Cloudflare. Apparently, the patent troll Sable Networks has just made exactly that blunder.
About a decade ago, the online retailer Newegg pioneered the strategy of attacking back on patent trolls. The entire patent trolling business model is based on the fact that it is almost always cheaper to settle a patent trolling case than to fight it and win. A full patent trial will cost over a million dollars easily, and sometimes multiples of that. But many patent trolls file a ton of lawsuits, hoping to settle each for well less than what it takes to fight in court. It
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Almost one in five patent cases filed in the US last year went to a new judge in Waco, near Austin. Patent trolls love Judge Alan Albright s speedy procedures, and everyone admires his patent savvy.
A Waco jury recently awarded a Fortress entity $2.2 billion in a dispute with Intel.
It s hard to find a lawyer who doesn t like Judge Alan Albright, the new federal judge in Waco, Texas. Even those who have previously sparred with him in the courtroom.