The Princeton patent award winners are among 14 teams honored for innovative patent work spanning 13 R&D categories.
In July, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an organization that is skeptical about the value to society of software patents, announced the winners of its "busting patents" competition, which sought nominations for the worst Internet-related patents.
The House approved a bill in December that would make it easier for a judge to award legal fees to the winners of patent lawsuits.
Will a rich patent portfolio determine the winner?
To the winners of the patent wars, the rewards will be rich.
The only likely winners are the patent attorneys.
GIPs typically do not preclude the winner also obtaining patent rights.
The race to the patent office could soon be winner-take-all.
One important provision in the bill would allow judges to order the loser in a patent case to pay the winner's legal fees, if the case was not "objectively reasonable". Currently, judges can only award fees in "exceptional" cases.
Late last night, it was revealed that Nortel had picked a winner for their patent portfolio.
