The Candle Information Blog

In March 2006, there was renewed concern in regards to the patent system, manifested not only in discussion of the NTP v. RIM (BlackBerry) case, which settled for $612.5 million but in addition on the fate of using injunctions in patent infringement instances, to be reviewed by the Supreme Court in eBay v. MercExchange. The Wall Road Journal wrote that U.S. patent regulation is “deterring analysis and penalizing innovation,” and that the patent system is “quick changing into a detriment to U.S. competitiveness, to not mention fundamental fairness.” The concept patents will not be central to innovation can be discovered in the philosophy of some venture capitalists, who will straight let you know “patents aren’t why we’re investing.”