Patent Reform: Damages
Suggested ReadingsWritten statement by Mark Lemley to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, March 10, 2009
Mark Lemley is the William H. Neukom Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. These are the written remarks he submitted before testifying at the Senate. Note that he covers a wide range of interesting issues here, even though in his oral comments he ended up focusing almost exclusively on the damages issue.
Written statement by Taraneh Maghame to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, March 10, 2009
Taraneh Maghame is the Vice President of Tessera, Inc, and in these written remarks she provides an interesting view on how a patent-dependent company sees the various reform issues. As readers here might know, Tessera has had a rough year with respect to its patent portfolio, because the Patent Office has been rejecting claims from several of the company’s foundational patents as part of various pending reexamination proceedings.
Written statement by David Kappos to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, March 10, 2009
David Kappos was at the time of these written remarks the Vice President and Assistant General Counsel for Intellectual Property Law and Strategy at IBM. He would a few months later take over at the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
