A new study confirms what we’ve all suspected based on anecdotal evidence: Suits filed by patent trolls have gone way up over the past few years. As Ars Technica reports, the new study headed up ...

In spite Alice /35 U.S.C. § 101, which IBM opposes and lobbies against, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ( USPTO) is still granting software patents. Legislators try to bypass SCOTUS and IBM backs ...

Dick Durbin, D-Springfield, co-sponsored the PREVAIL Act. Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Activism Director Jason Kelley is an opponent of the PREVAIL Act. "Patent troll lawsuits already target ...

"Patent troll lawsuits already target individuals and small businesses for simply using everyday technology, and if PREVAIL becomes law, it will make life easier for those patent trolls at every ...

A hearing held today by the Senate Subcommittee on Intellectual Property featured witnesses both for and against the recently ...

Although this case of copyright trolling is seemingly over, Neumayer—along with a couple other gamers trolled by ...

This familiar paradigm has produced the appropriate alias “patent troll”—a term describing a company with a practice of acquiring patents and initiating often meritless lawsuits against ...

Since the America Invents Act (“AIA”) established a new venue for hearing patent disputes, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board ...