Sentences with phrase «patent abuse from»

The group includes nearly twenty industry associations (including NAR) and companies that represent small, main street businesses across the country and is dedicated to stopping patent abuse from trolls.

This common - sense reform will strengthen the U.S. patent system by allowing independent inventors to seek their rewards through our judicial system while curbing the patent abuse from patent profiteers.

Not exact matches

In my mind, there is little doubt that the federal gov» t (since I have reported this matter to the AG of Canada) has jurisdiction to act immediately to protect and defend Her Majesty's Letters Patent from any further misuse and abuse if he considers the problem serious enough to do so.

AstraZeneca's upset stomach: AstraZeneca delayed entry of generic competitors of its anti-ulcer drug and prevented parallel trade by abusing patents and marketing procedures, the European Court of Justice held in reducing AstraZeneca's fine slightly, to $ 52.5 million from $ 60 million.

That hasn't stopped the White House from searching out other ways they can curb the abuse of the patent system.

Justice Gleason found Sanofi - Aventis 2007 was «dispositive» and it was an abuse for the brand to re-litigate obviousness in case2: «That issue was the same in both cases and arose directly from the patent, itself.»

«Through the mass mailing of bad faith demand letters, some bad actors have abused an otherwise legitimate patent enforcement practice for the purpose of extracting payment from small «mom and pop» businesses and other groups of people generally unfamiliar with the patent system,» according to the letter.

«Only Congress can stop patent trolls from continuing to abuse the patent litigation system to extort undeserved settlements from businesses of all sizes,» Tanielian said, «but confirming a PTO director of Michelle Lee's background and experience is an important and necessary step in strengthening our nation's patent system.»

«It is time for the Senate to do the right thing: Ignore the pleas of trial lawyers, universities, and others who routinely profit from patent abuse, and pass strong, commonsense reforms to protect American innovators and entrepreneurs,» said Michael Petricone, CEA's senior vice president of government affairs.

Under the current rules, struggling old guard firms can exploit a broken patent system to abuse monopolies over basic software concepts from decades ago.

The letter expresses the coalition's support for the SHIELD (Saving High - Tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes) Act, a bipartisan bill from Rep. Peter DeFazio and Rep. Jason Chaffetz that would create real and appropriate consequences for patent lawsuit abuse.

We need fundamental patent reform, including venue reform, to stop patents like this from being granted and from being abused in the courts.

EFF has been fighting abuse of the patent system for years — doing everything from getting bad patents invalidated, to working to stop bad patents from issuing in the first place, to trying to fix imbalances in the law.