Anti Software Patent

At the USPTO hearing, @RepFitzgerald highlighted the real cost of weakening PTAB, noting patent litigation in district court costs $5M on average — ten times more than PTAB. 💸 American innovators can't afford to lose their most affordable path to challenging bad patents.

Congress solved the patent troll crisis once with the America Invents Act and the IPR process. Now @USPTO is dismantling it, flying in the face of congressional intent. @NRFnews Stephanie Martz makes the case in @dcexaminer: washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-amer….

Patent Troll Targets Airline Call Center Software In New Suit — 90+ Filings In 3 Years dlvr.it/TRvBVM via @garyleff

.@RepZoeLofgren: "The institution rate has collapsed, not because petitions lack merit, but because barriers are being applied that Congress never authorized." We couldn't agree more. @USPTO doesn't get to rewrite the AIA — only Congress has the authority to change the law. 🏛️📜

.@RepZoeLofgren called out Director Squires during the @USPTO hearing on his changes to PTAB without authorization: "the agency's institution rate has collapsed, not because the petitions lack merit, but because barriers are being applied that Congress never authorized.”

US Patent Office revokes Nintendo's controversial Pokémon battling patent in nonfinal decision pcgamer.com/gaming-industr…

Thank you @repdarrellissa for holding the USPTO oversight hearing and standing up for an accessible IPR process. 🤝 American innovators depend on IPR to fight invalid patents from trolls and foreign entities - we can't let that be dismantled.

ICYMI: @HouseJudiciary and @JudiciaryGOP questioned @USPTO Director John Squires’ policies that cripple the IPR process ⚖️ IPR is a critical safeguard that allows for the review of invalid patents, and gutting it creates a ripple effect that impacts businesses of all sizes 🏪

What's at stake: @USPTO has crippled the IPR process, leaving U.S. businesses exposed to abusive litigation that stifles competition and drains resources. @HouseJudiciary & @JudiciaryGOP need to hold Director Squires accountable. 📺 Tune in at 10:00am: judiciary.house.gov/committee-acti….

📢New from @NRFnews Stephanie Martz in @dcexaminer: “The very agency tasked with creating and enforcing the IPR process is single-handedly gutting it.” The result? A 19% surge in patent troll suits—and Main Street businesses left to foot the bill. More: washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-amer….

RESTORING AMERICA: @realDonaldTrump should restore little-known patent program to help local retailers trib.al/UPU7r3a

Netflix Sinks Patent Claim In Streaming Tech Dispute - Law360 law360.com/articles/24550…

No luck for Broadcom as Netflix and Quinn Emanuel succeed in another nullity claim - JUVE Patent juve-patent.com/cases/no-luck-…

Federal Circuit Finds that Antivirus Software is Abstract and Remands for Alice, Step Two - The National Law Review natlawreview.com/article/federa…

Congress must fight patent trolls thegazette.com/opinion/guest-… #FixPatents

The Patent System: A Quid Pro Quo? - Patent - United Kingdom - Mondaq mondaq.com/uk/patent/1752…

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has barred patent examiners from evaluating ​applications for companies where they have any financial interest, rather than a former $15,000 cap, but attorneys raised concerns that the scope of his changes is small, and there are no consequences for not complying. law360.com/articles/24479…

Valve and Gabe Newell keep winning. They destroyed the prominent patent troll Leigh Rothchild in a lawsuit that claimed that they violated the anti-patent troll protection act. Patent trolling is a horribly destructive practice that is purely an economic rent-seeking venture that is anti-innovation, anti-consumer, and anti-competition. It has been an anathema in Western copyright and patent space where these patent troll entities hold a vast number of patents only to sue companies that use technologies that vaguely align with the claimed "invention". The vast majority of these inventions are very simple, pointing to technologies that are in common use, such as a "system and method for storing broadcast content in a cloud-based computing environment", the specific patent in this case. The language of the invention is so broad that it is practically a joke, and yet they were successful in extracting money (licensing fees) from those they threatened to sue. Valve is one of the first companies to fight against this, instead of paying the extortion fees, and won. I am really hoping this is the beginning of the end for these rent-seeking dishonest practices of patent trolling as a whole.

Why Patent if there is no Financial Reward? #Patent #FixPatents

In for 2026: Patent policies that protect American innovators. Out for 2026: Policies that allow patent trolls to fuel large-scale abusive patent litigation campaigns that drain resources, stifle investment, and hurt businesses of all sizes.