Lastly, the 'Patent Entities: List' API was called to retrieve a list of all biological targets for a given patent.
That could be to a patent entity who has the funds and interest in trying to enforce them through the legal system.
Mr. Jurata speaks and publishes regularly on topics such as Standard-Essential Patents (SEPs), F/RAND, patent assertion entities (PAEs) and patent trolls.
Twitter, AirBnB, and many other companies have pledged to limit their patents assertions, and more than 20 companies including Google, whose patent portfolio ranks eighth in the world, and Canon, which has the third most patents, have committed to restricting the transfer of their patents to entities focused on patent litigation.
Companies like Google, BlackBerry and Earthlink have lobbied against patent trolls and what it calls "patent privateering," when patent enforcement entities make deals with larger companies to take over their portfolios and bring cases against competitors.
All of our key leaders are in agreement that our patent system is off balance because of the actions of patent assertion entities (PAEs) (or patent trolls), firms that engage in aggressive litigation tactics to secure damages rather than promote innovation.
Even though Congress substantially overhauled the patent system just three and a half years ago with the passage of the America Invents Act, the continued public drumbeat (a drumbeat taken up by President Obama, among others) against "Patent Assertion Entities" (PAE), aka "patent trolls," has caused a continued beehive of patent reform activity in the Supreme Court and Congress.
Companies like Google, BlackBerry, Earthlink, Red Hat, and others in the tech community, have been piling pressure on the U.S. government to take a stronger stand against companies that file patent suits but don't actually make any products themselves — known formally as "patent assertion entities" but more commonly as patent trolls and patent privateers (a term favored by Google).
Chase Means raised the possibility that the decision will incentivize patent trolls, entities that hold patents for challenging alleged infringers and charging license fees.
Both bills contain provisions to improve transparency into who is really behind a patent assertion, as patent assertion entities that are effectively judgment-proof are often created to obscure the party that is truly interested in the litigation.
