To Some, Patent Litigation Reform Paints With 'Broad Brush;' Others See 'Necessary' Improvements

摘要

Panelists disagreed whether a newly released patent reform bill took a “broad brush” approach tonpatent law or just narrowly targets the patent trolling behavior it intends to stymie. The bill's sponsor,nHouse Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., took his case for the Innovation Act (HR-n3309) to a Thursday event at the American Enterprise Institute event, calling the legislation a “necessary”nimprovement and a fix to the “current asymmetries surrounding patent litigation.” An Internet industrynassociation representative and law professor agreed, praising the bill’s fee-shifting and transparency measures.nBut a tech giant’s intellectual property counsel cautioned the bill could create “collateral damage” innthe patent ecosystem with it’s “one-size-fits-all” approach to patent litigation.