[Lurking Libertarian]

SCOTUS.

[Swordmaker]

Supreme Court OKs 2011 patent reform law that allows US Patent and Trademark Office to review the claims in already granted patents and invalidate them if they should never have been granted when challenged by companies being sued by patent trolls. Apple is the number one target of such patent trolls. 80% of such patents when re-examined are invalidated because of either obviousness at the time of grant or because of prior art, or because the claims are deemed too broad. For example the latest patent troll has slapped a suit on Apple because the iPhone 6S makes phone calls and sends emails, which the plaintiff claims his patent granted sometime in the last year or so, give him the patent on. — PING!

Apple Benefits from Supreme Court Decision On Patents
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[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Apple just lost a Patent case in China. Did they steal the 6 design?

Trolls and thieves, let them have at it.

[Smedley]

Just FYI, Cuozzo Speed is just idiotic. It basically sets up two different standards to reject a patent claim depending on where the defendant wants to adjudicate patentability, which in turn causes forum-hunting issues.

That, combined with the fact that the USPTO administrative patent judges are effing morons, leads to disaster