Patent reform is heating up in Congress. Today House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte released a second discussion draft aimed at preventing abusive patent troll litigation. Chairman Goodlatte has suggested he will move quickly to hold a hearing and committee vote on this legislation.
Today’s draft incorporates many...

As the highest court in Massachusetts considers whether cell-site data is private in the context of the Fourth Amendment, we filed an amicus brief arguing that when the police want to be able to recreate your every step—figuring out your patterns of movement, where you've been and with...

It turns out two tech startups have banded together with patent trolls in order to fight off insane instances of patent assertion.
While this sentence may cause you to do a double take, it's sadly true. In the face of costly, time-wasting litigation, two young businesses have found their...

Is it possible that last year's disastrous Supreme Court decision affirming the withdrawal of millions of works from the public domain (at least in the U.S.) might set the stage for good constitutional challenges to bad copyright law? That's the argument that copyright scholar Neil Netanel makes in...

The infamous patent troll Lodsys has been bothering app developers for almost three years now, claiming that in-app pay-to-upgrade functionality infringes its patents. No matter that Apple and Google provide that technology to the developers, and no matter that most app developers can't afford this kind expensive patent litigation.
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