here’s a long-since expired baseball-related patent — U.S. Pat. No. 3,002,234, for a “Convertible Stadium” — that covered Shea Stadium‘s movable seating (back when Shea used to be the home of the MLB’s Mets and the NFL’s
Last Thursday, March 14, the U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet held a hearing titled “Abusive Patent Litigation: The Impact on American Innovation & Jobs, and Potential Solutions. Those testifying before the subcommittee included representatives from Cisco, SAS, J.C. Penney, Global IP Group, Johnson & Johnson, and Adobe Systems.
in which he addresses the recent use of standard-essential patents in the “smartphone wars” within the larger context of the standard-essential patent universe. Like several of the entities who submitted public comments on the FTC-Google consent decree,
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. The aim of this legislation is to decrease the amount of frivolous NPE patent litigation by increasing financial burdens on NPEs. More on this legislation
Supreme Court. The Court held oral arguments in Bowman v. Monsanto, where the justices are tasked with deciding whether the patent exhaustion doctrine extends to self-replicating technologies (here, Monsanto’s patented Roundup Ready soybeans). For more info on these cases, see these recaps from Patently-O
take questions from the public, and the topic of patents came up. He answered a question about non-practicing entities and startups, and acknowledged that the America Invents Act “only went about halfway” to full patent reform. (via Patent Progress)
