[Pelham]

"the U.S. Chamber of Commerce warned as early as 2017, the PTAB “provides a channel for bad faith actors and injects a great deal of cost and uncertainty for patent owners.” According to an analysis by Josh Malone, policy director for the nonprofit organization U.S. Inventor, the PTAB invalidates 84% of patents challenged by Big Tech companies. Former Federal Circuit Chief Judge Randall Rader called the PTAB a “patent death squad.”

"Many of these PTAB challenges are brought by Big Tech defendants facing patent infringement lawsuits in federal court — including cases in which the courts already ruled that those companies had infringed the patents in question. Take VirnetX, for example, a startup that invented the “Jason Bourne” technology that allowed CIA agents in the field to make the kind of secure encrypted phone calls to headquarters in Langley depicted in the movie “The Bourne Identity.” VirnetX spent more than a decade proving in three separate federal trials and two appeals — all of them victorious — that Apple had used VirnetX’s patented technology in its FaceTime application. "

[Fungi]

I can remember this site during its inception and I listened to Hugh Spewitt at the time. Tom Bevan was a frequent guest, noteworthy for his begging for monetary support and his childish interviews--more hesitation markers than a dog in heat.

Good to see they are doing well and don't know about his interviews as Hugh Spewitt's show has been relegated to a time slot when no one can listen, and I don't. Mark Levin has supplanted Spewitt's show because he is better than that clown whose interminable joke concerning his "if I only had a producer" Duane Patterson, a cancer survivor, seems to be his only joke, one that lost its intent 10 years ago. Duane, quit putting up with his crap.

The moniker "Spewitt" is not mine, but from a Freeper on this forum. Cannot remember when I first saw it but it is supremely appropriate.

[scrabblehack]

Does the League for Programming Freedom still exist?
I thought their position was that Big Tech abused the little guys rather than the other way around.
LPF opposed the concept of software patents altogether -
copyright yes, patent no.

[Nifster]

Yeah the good old chamber of commerce that lobbied for all the work visas tech could ever want

[Starcitizen]

Most traitorous part of big tech: the abject refusal the hire Americans, preferring Indian scumbags

[SueRae]

I had a good number of Virnetx shares and remember this legislation only too well. Apple stole it(encryption technology). They were found guilty. But then appealed to the PTAB and many patents overturned in whole or in part. Virnetx won a judgement against Apple recently but hasn’t yet been paid. Yes, they are still fighting...at a greatly reduced share price. Damn the lot of the 0bama administration.