PDF summary available here I. Introduction A recent draft study about patent licensing companies entitled “Patent Trolls: Evidence from Targeted Firms” is making the rounds on Capitol Hill and […]
[Archived Post] Intellectual Property Unites Creators and Innovators
This is the first in a series of posts summarizing CPIP’s 2014 Fall Conference, “Common Ground: How Intellectual Property Unites Creators and Innovators.” The Conference was held at George Mason […]
[Archived Post] Alice Gets the Most Important Question Right
By Matthew Barblan By far the most important takeaway from today’s Supreme Court decision in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank is the Court’s acknowledgment that “many computer-implemented claims are formally […]
[Archived Post] The Unintended Consequences of Patent “Reform”
By Steven Tjoe Much of today’s patent policy debate focuses on the dynamics of patent litigation. Sensational anecdotes of abusive demand letters, litigants strategically exploiting bad patents, and tales of […]
[Archived Post] An Insightful Analysis of “Fair and Reasonable” in the Determination of FRAND Terms
By Steven Tjoe In his forthcoming George Mason University Law Review article entitled “The Meaning of ‘Fair and Reasonable’ in the Context of Third-Party Determination of FRAND Terms,” Professor Damien […]
[Archived Post] Taking a Whack at the DMCA: The Problem of Continuous Re-Posting
By Steven Tjoe On Thursday March 13, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s (DMCA) notice and takedown system. Among the witnesses testifying at […]
[Archived Post] Improving the DMCA’s Notice and Takedown System
In conjunction with today’s House Judiciary Committee hearing on the DMCA, CPIP Senior Scholar Prof. Mark Schultz published a critique of the notice and takedown system this morning on AEI’s TechPolicyDaily Blog. In […]