It is perfectly legal for companies to sit on patents and wait for others to create before either suing the creator or charging licensing fees. Today it is perfectly legal for companies to b... Read more
It’s time for real patent reform Andy Kessler has one of his typically insightful Wall Street Journal opinion pieces in which he says it’s time for real patent reform (rather tha... Read more
Twitter is thinking differently about this We’ve talked repeatedly in the past about how even if a company got patents for solely defensive reasons, down the road, those patents can en... Read more
How “patent assertion entities” stifle innovation. (It’s even worse than you think.) When hospitals come upon a technology with a proven track record of saving lives, you’d expect a flood of... Read more
The cost of patents is going up, and that is not a good thing. After all, Google is paying $12.5 billion for Motorola largely for its huge mobile patent portfolio. In July, an anti-Google co... Read more