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Peter Zura
Personal blog · 271patent.blogspot.combusinesseconomics
Peter Zura writes The 271 Patent Blog, a personal blog at 271patent.blogspot.com about business and economics. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2011, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this patent blog for analysis of patent procedure, such as reexamination timelines and the presumption of validity in patent cases, including the i4i litigation.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
By Peter Zura
What Hacker News says?
Note that this is a Non-Final action - which I believe means that Lodsys has not had a chance to respond. In general reexaminations take a long time... "Based on our calculations, it takes more than 3 ½ years (43.5 months) for the average case to proceed through the basic reexam process to a final conclusion... A 95% confidence interval suggests an average pendency for appealed cases (again, assuming no rework) is b…
Comment linking /2008/05/another-critical-study-on-inter-partes.html
on “24 Claims of Lodsys '565 Patent Rejected”Submitted PriceWaterhouseCoopers Releases 2009 Patent Litigation Study on Trolls as a story · 7 points
HN discussion[FROM OP:] The specific question the Court will decide is: "Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that Microsoft’s [patent] invalidity defense must be proved by clear and convincing evidence." (From http://www.scribd.com/doc/36934612/Microsoft-i4i-Cert-Petiti... ) For more on the presumption of validity in patent cases, see http://271patent.blogspot.com/2009/08/revisiting-presumption... For more about how ce…
Comment linking /2009/08/revisiting-presumption-of-validity.html
on “Supreme Court agrees to hear Microsoft challenge to i4i patent”