Michelle Mao is an incoming 2L JD student at Osgoode Hall Law school and an IPilogue Writer. Litigation is almost always recommended to be avoided, whether because of the sheer…
Tag: Patent Trolls
Patent Infringement Claimant: COVID-19 Research Facilitator, Patent Troll, or Both?
In response to the global outbreak of COVID-19, many countries have been racing to develop vaccines and test existing drugs to fight the pandemic. On March 9th, 2020, Labrador Diagnostics…
Advances in Securing the Bridge to Innovation: Recent Progress on Combating Patent Trolls
Over the last decade, patent trolls have become a prominent intellectual property (IP) issue. Patent trolls are companies that exploit IP as tools for litigation instead of innovation, using purchased…
Robotic Trolls
I’m increasingly inclined to think that there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish.…
Patent Trolls or Patent Heroes? – The Increasing Pressure on Patent Assertion Entities
On July 13, 2013, the New York Times published an article on Erich Spangenberg’s business enterprise, IPNav, which is considered to be one of the largest Patent Assertion Entities (“P.A.E.s”) in…
17 Year-Old Patent Causing Problems for Podcasters
Is a podcast analogous to a cassette tape recording of a magazine article? Jim Logan of Personal Audio thinks that it is, and that it thereby infringes his patent. (more…)