Intellectual Property
Dec. 18, 2013
Tread lightly reining in patent litigation abuse
The Innovation Act, which aims to curb abusive patent litigation behavior by entities whose sole business is to license patents, recently passed the House. By Stephen S. Korniczky and Graham M. Buccigross
On Dec. 5, by a 325-91 vote, the House of Representatives approved the Innovation Act, H.R. 3309. There is a competing bill in the Senate, S. 1720. Congressman Bob Goodlatte introduced the Innovation Act, which aims to curb abusive patent litigation behavior by entities whose sole business is to license patents. These entities are known as nonpracticing entities, patent assertion entities, and sometimes pejorativel...
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