Strider LongshanksSep 11, 2025
Was in London today for a caselaw seminar on the Unified Patent Court. I walked from St. Pancras railway station to The Law Society in Chancery Lane, about 25 min, in sunny weather. What impressed me most though, was the separated cycling infrastructure along Grays Inn Road. Not perfect by any means, but still, the number of bikes out was pretty significant. Of course, the tube strike had helped boost numbers, no doubt, but still, I never thought I'd see the day when London reminded me of the Netherlands.
#cyclingInfrastructure
#london
#unifiedpatents
#lawsociety
petersuberSep 19, 2024

Progress against patent trolls:

"#UnifiedPatents' goal is to deter predatory #patent claims, which it does through efforts like its #crowdsourced contests to identify #PriorArt that would invalidate an improperly granted patent…It has successfully challenged over 55 #NPE ["non-practicing entity" or #PatentTroll] efforts that threatened #OpenSource software."
https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/18/open_source_orgs_strengthen_alliance/

#CNCF #LinuxFoundation #Patents

Open source orgs strengthen alliance against patent trolls

The more successful FOSS gets, the more it becomes a target

The Register
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)May 24, 2018
#unifiedpatents versus #microsoft connected #patenttroll #acacia (which attacks GNU/Linux vendors)

https://www.unifiedpatents.com/news/2018/5/23/acacia-patent-determined-to-be-likely-invalid see http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Acacia
Acacia patent determined to be likely invalid

On May 23, 2018, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) instituted trial on all challenged claims in an IPR filed by Unified against U.S. Patent 8,902,770  owned and asserted by Cellular Communications Equipment, an Acacia subsidiary and well-known NPE. The '770 patent, direct

Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)Mar 31, 2018
Unified Patents: Patent Litigation in the US is Still Dominated by #PatentTrolls That Create Nothing But Lawsuits http://techrights.org/2018/03/31/unified-patents-statistics/ #UnifiedPatents #PatentTroll #uspto #us #swpats #iot
Unified Patents: Patent Litigation in the US is Still Dominated by Patent Trolls That Create Nothing But Lawsuits

Some complete/exhaustive statistics (not interpolated/extrapolated but limited to one area) from Unified Patents help demonstrate trends in patent litigation in the United States; it's clear that much work remains to be done by patent reformers

Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)Mar 27, 2018
More Litigation Ventures of #IntellectualVentures (Microsoft's Patent Troll) Stopped by #UnifiedPatents http://techrights.org/2018/03/27/unified-patents-vs-intellectual-ventures/ #Microsoft #PatentTroll #PatentTrolls #ptab #uspto
More Litigation Ventures of Intellectual Ventures (Microsoft's Patent Troll) Stopped by Unified Patents

The latest news about Microsoft's biggest and most vicious patent troll; OIN also reappears in the media, albeit it's no solution to patent trolls

Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)Mar 27, 2018
Thanks to #unifiedpatents a #microsoft #patenttroll #IntellectualVentures #patent found invalid https://www.unifiedpatents.com/news/2018/3/26/intellectual-ventures-patent-found-invalid see http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Intellectual_Ventures
Intellectual Ventures patent found invalid

On March 26, 2018, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board issued a final written decision in Unified Patents Inc. v. Intellectual Ventures I, LLC ,  IPR2016-01643  invalidating all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 6,775,745  owned and asserted by Intellectual Ventures I, LLC,

Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)Mar 10, 2018
#UnifiedPatents Puts $2,000 Bounties on Prior Art, Seeking to Defang Texan #PatentTrolls That Are Active In Spite of #TCHeartland http://techrights.org/2018/03/10/unified-patents-bounties/ #edtx #texas #swpats #apple
Unified Patents Puts $2,000 Bounties on Prior Art, Seeking to Defang Texan Patent Trolls That Are Active In Spite of TC Heartland

There's now money in invalidation of patents (not just for defendants' lawyers in courts or petitioners at PTAB) rather than endless pursuits of more and more patents; Unified Patents offers the money, targeting patent trolls for the most part

Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)Feb 24, 2018
#UnifiedPatents , With Help From#PTAB , Succeeds at Disarming #PatentTrolls ; #InterDigital and #RPX See a Massive Decline in Income http://techrights.org/2018/02/24/disarming-patent-trolls/ #swpats #uniloc #uspto
Unified Patents, With Help From PTAB, Succeeds at Disarming Patent Trolls; InterDigital and RPX See a Massive Decline in Income

Positive news about the rapid demise of small patent trolls, large (even publicly-traded) trolls, and entities like RPX which profit from troll activity

Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)Feb 9, 2018
Joe Mullin Joins the #EFF to Fight Mean #SoftwarePatents Starting With Coverage About #UnifiedPatents Defeating #Sportbrain http://techrights.org/2018/02/09/ptab-patents-unified-patents/ #swpats #ptab #uspto
Joe Mullin Joins the EFF to Fight Mean Software Patents, Starting With Coverage About Unified Patents Defeating Sportbrain

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) has just smashed another troublesome patent and Joe Mullin was there, this time in EFF clothing, to cover it

Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)Jan 21, 2018
#UnifiedPatents Says That #RPX , Which Might Soon be Owned by #Patent Trolls, Paid #PatentTrolls Hundreds of Millions of Dollars http://techrights.org/2018/01/21/rpx-has-helped-trolls/
Unified Patents Says That RPX, Which Might Soon be Owned by Patent Trolls, Paid Patent Trolls Hundreds of Millions of Dollars

Unified Patents, which helps crush software patents, takes note of RPX’s financial statements, which reveal the great extent to which RPX actually helped trolls rather than stop them