Patent licensing company Conversant Intellectual Property Management today launched an educational campaign against the use of extortionist demand letters that are victimizing thousands of small and ...

So-called “demand letters,”in which patent-holders assert that other businesses or even consumers infringe their patents, have become the focus of many recent efforts to defang patent “trolls.” Such ...

A key group pushing for change to the US patent system has come out today against a reform bill called the TROL Act, saying the bill “falls far short” of its stated goal of fighting misleading patent ...

The U.S. Congress should take action to slow a skyrocketing number of “deceptive” patent- infringement demand letters sent from patent-licensing firms to small businesses, witnesses told a Senate ...

Under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, a state or federal court may exercise jurisdiction over a defendant only if the defendant is at home in the forum state or has sufficient ...

An anti-patent-troll bill was introduced in Congress two weeks ago and debated at the House Judiciary Committee last week. Yesterday, a Senate committee convened to talk about one of the nastier sides ...

More than 200 retailers, replicators, suppliers and others in the home entertainment industry received a surprise letter this month claiming that two inventors own a patent relating to the process of ...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is the federal agency for granting U.S. patents and registering trademarks. Pictured June 30, 2018, in Arlington, Virginia. Photo: Mark Van Scyoc/Shutterstock.

The article "Critics Fault Court's Grip on Appeals for Patents" (Marketplace, July 7) reports that current detractors of the patent system believe that having appellate courts around the nation hear ...