Sentences with phrase «low quality patents»

In addition, there are more ways now to knock out low quality patents (e.g., pre-issuance submissions, IPRs, PGRs, and the PTAB, which is relatively hostile towards patent proprietors).

Furthermore, lower quality patents can be surfaced more readily by Patent Quality algorithms available in the information marketplace.

Not exact matches

Not only does Alice promise to limit the issuance of the bad patents that trolls can exploit, but it provides a crucial tool for those startups and small businesses to defend themselves in court when facing threats based on low - quality patents.

Many startups rely on patents to protect their intellectual property, but allowing low - quality patents to flood the system not only enables trolls to file abusive lawsuits, it also delegitimizes the entire patent system.

The technology in its injection molding equipment, proprietary blend of recycled petrochemical resins, and patented pallet designs allow production of high quality pallets more quickly and at a lower cost than competitors.

She adds that there is actually little incentive for the patent holder to improve the quality of the tests or lower its price.

Unfortunately, most of the advanced tools, including the patented personality tests fall into the premium category and can't be used for free, there's a fee for using them, but the rates are pretty low compared to what I've seen other dating sites charge and the quality of these tests merit some kind of payment.

It's such a unique design that Amazon probably has a patent on it, and it could potentially become a liability for them if companies used inferior batteries and low quality materials, which is par for the course when it comes to cheap covers.

In fairness, Kappos also discusses some of the work that remains to be done, particularly to address the global perception that the PTO's patents are of «lower quality» than those issued by its European or Japanese counterparts.

The technology, which has received a patent from IP Australia, identifies documents with low quality searchable text and will be used as part of a new service being launched by Corrs called JustOCR.

Instead, the US specific, substantial and credible standard will constrain the issuance of low - quality patents.

Even more is at stake for an American patent system swamped by millions of low - quality patents, many of them — like the one belonging to Alice Corp — related to software.

In the short term, however, the Supreme Court's decision is unlikely to do much to flush away many of the millions of low - quality patents already in the system.

Ultimately, though, it appears the country may be stuck with low - quality patents for the foreseeable future.

These suits frequently involve low - quality patents that cover standard features of e-commerce, like online shopping carts, store locators on websites, and shipment notification emails sent to customers.»

The shopping cart patent is a good example of what happens when low - quality patents end up in the hands of bad actors — Soverain, the patent's owner, has reportedly made more than $ 70 million in settlements and lawsuits claiming it owns basic, obvious shopping cart technology.

In recent years, patents have become a bugbear in Silicon Valley as a flood of low - quality patents has triggered a litigation arms race and given rise to a scourge of «trolls» — shell companies that don't make anything but use the threat of lawsuits to extort licenses from companies that do.

His solution, however, was to lower standards, allowing a flood of low - quality patents to issue.

Finally, today's discussion draft focuses on litigation system, rather than targeting the root cause of the problem: the flood of low - quality, over-broad software patents.

Ultimately, current reform efforts only target litigation abuse and ignore the more fundamental problem of the flood of low - quality software patents.

The flood of these low - quality software patents is at the root of this problem, and we can not fully address the scourge of patent trolls without addressing those patents.

The paper appreciates the real harm that comes from patent trolls and recognize the risk that low - quality patents represent when they end up in patent trolls» hands.

Under the law, patent recipients get the right to exclude others from using the technology for 20 years — unfortunately, the system turned toxic when the Patent Office began issuing a flood of low - quality patents and lawyers and others began buying them up and suing everyone in patent recipients get the right to exclude others from using the technology for 20 years — unfortunately, the system turned toxic when the Patent Office began issuing a flood of low - quality patents and lawyers and others began buying them up and suing everyone in Patent Office began issuing a flood of low - quality patents and lawyers and others began buying them up and suing everyone in sight.

Daniel Nazer, a staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), an international nonprofit digital rights group, believes the bill is an important first step in addressing low - quality patents, but that more needs to be done.

There can be no doubt: we have a problem with low - quality, abstract software patents in this country.

While we strongly support the Innovation Act, we believe that further reform will be needed to bring the patent system into the 21st century and deal with the fundamental problem of low - quality software patents.

We were disappointed to see hard - fought patent reform derailed by political dealings, but have seen a Supreme Court ruling in Alice v. CLS Bank used to challenge some of the lowest - quality software patents.

Unfortunately, the quality of these patents has tended to be very low.

The Supreme Court's decision in Alice v CLS Bank invalidated many of the low - quality software patents favored by patent trolls.

We're still reading it, but the paper appears to appreciate the real harm that comes from patent trolls and recognize the risk that low - quality patents represent when they end up in patent trolls» hands.

It also gives the agency a tool to fight back against patent trolls, or entities that often use low - quality patents to fuel abusive litigation and win extortionate settlements from productive American companies.