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Software Patent Litigation:What have we learned?
Deb NicholsonOpen Invention NetworkLISA, November 11th, 2015
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I am not a lawyer.
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This is not legal advice.
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Big Picture
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300,000 patents were granted in the US
in the last year
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99 problems, but an invention ain't one
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U.S. Utility Patents Issued Over Time, courtesy of www.patentfreedom.com
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About 50% percent of those were given to inventors
outside the US
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Global Trends
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Software Patents Issued To Date
US: 799,050
Australia: 53,278
European Patent Office: 108,977
China: 9,860
Korea: 2,362
Canada: 2,109
Japan: 1,993
Great Britain: 672
Germany: 606
From lens.org, on Jan. 30th, 2015
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Source: Stefania Fusco, Markets and Patent Enforcement: A ComparativeInvestigation of Non-Practicing Entities in the United States and Europe,
20 M ICH . T ELECOMM . & T ECH . L. R EV . 439 (2014)
Trolls are bringing 11% of UK suits
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Foreign inventors are very successful in the US courts
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Barristers & Bottomfeeders
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65% of litigated NPE suits have
software-related claims
"An Empirical Study of Patent Litigation Timing: Could A Patent Term Reduction Decimate Trolls Without Harming Innovators?" Brian J. Love, 2012
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Contingent fee representation is on the rise
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The economy even affects lawyers
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“Even with a 40% contingent share, we need at least $5
million in damages to break even.”
The Rise of Contingent Fee Legislation, David L. Schwarz (2012)
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Many firms go after weaker defendants first
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Smaller firms go with quantity over quality
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Even if you win, getting sued sucks
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Judges & Juries
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"Understanding the realities of Modern Patent Litigation" (2014 : Allison, Lemley & Schwartz)
In the 90's defendants needed to find prior art or prove that their work was out of scope
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Nautilus v. Biosig ruling: vague patents aren't enforceable
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Alice v. CLS Bank ruling: generic computer implementation
isn't patentable
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"The Supreme Court recently reaffirmed that fundamental concepts, by
themselves, are ineligible abstract ideas."
Federal Circuit, Digitech Image v. Electronics for Imaging, Inc.
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McRO v. Activision: “This case illustrates the danger that exists when the novel portions of an invention are claimed too broadly.”
Judge Wu
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More experience with patent suits makes judges less likely
to rule for patent-holders
Does Familiarity Breed Contempt Among Judges Deciding Patent Cases?, Mark A. Lemley, Su Li, and Jennifer M. Urban, 2013
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Jasper L. Tran, Software Patents: A One-Year Review of Alice v. CLS Bank, 97
Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society 532, 540 (2015)
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Four out of five software patents could be bogus?
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Juries are another story...
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Judges tend to rule for the patentee only half the time
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Juries rule for the patentee over two-thirds of the time
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Today over 70% of patent cases are heard by juries
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It used to be closer to 5%
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What's working and what isn't
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Germany, New Zealand and India have put strict limits on
patentability
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Courtesy of patentprogress.org
States Acting Against Bad Faith Patent
Infringement Assertions (as of 09/16/2015)
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Sometimes democracy works!
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And sometimes it's a little trickier...
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From the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
" ...each Party shall make patents available for any invention, whether a product or process, in all fields of technology, provided that the invention is new, involves an inventive step and is capable of industrial application."
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The Open Invention Network: 1800+ FLOSS companies
and projects that don't sue each other
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We also coordinate defensive publishing
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Homework
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Patent-busting siteshttp://linuxdefenders.org/https://trollingeffects.org/
http://patents.stackexchange.com/
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Join OIN
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Pass local laws
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Further reading The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, http://ur1.ca/o9dwh
The Rise of Contingent Fee Representation in Patent Litigation by David L. Schwartz (2012)
Does Familiarity Breed Contempt Among Judges Deciding Patent Cases?, Mark A. Lemley, Su Li, and Jennifer M. Urban, 2013
Software Patents: A One-Year Review of Alice v. CLS Bank, Jasper L. Tran, 2015
Inter Partes Review: An Early Look at the NumbersBrian J. Love & Shawn Ambwani, 2015
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Picture and Font CreditsUS Transparency Legislation, courtesy of www.patentprogress.org
U.S. Utility Patents Issued Over Time & Operating Company Parties in NPE Lawsuits Over Time, courtesy of www.patentfreedom.com
The courts' implementation of Alice: Jasper L. Tran, Software Patents: A One-Year Review of Alice v. CLS Bank, 97 Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office
Society 532, 540 (2015)
CC.BYBlackboard by J. Neuber – Butterfly on Bed by Maxintosh – Ambulance In Motion
by Benjamin Ellis – Chalk Flag by Eric Herman – Emptied Piggy Bank by Eden, Janine and Jim – Chalk Maze by Eli Christman – Chalkzilla by Alexander Affleck – Chalk
Rainbow by Christopher Schmidt (all from Flickr)
CC.BY.SAPurple Haze by Joey Gannon (from Flickr)
Fair UseBenedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock doesn't belong to me
Public DomainAmerican Gothic by Grant Wood from the Google Art Project
Fonts: Anke (OFL) & Sorts Mill Goudy (MIT)