“If we don’t allow them to have funding, your patent has no value to you, because you can’t afford a sustained litigation battle,” says Kristen Osenga of the Inventors Defense Alliance
Patent experts, including a former Federal Circuit chief judge, former federal officials and current legal scholars, say a new advocacy organization they have formed will back smaller inventors against larger companies in patent fights.
A new inventors’ rights group was launched Thursday, September 19, with the aim of “helping startups, small businesses, and entrepreneurs defend their intellectual property rights and access capital.”
Today, the Inventors Defense Alliance, an advocacy organization dedicated to helping startups, small businesses, and entrepreneurs defend their intellectual property rights and access capital, formally launched.
Startups across the nation are on edge — and for good reason.
A District Court judge in Delaware recently imposed rigid and burdensome disclosure requirements including on companies that sue their much larger rivals for patent infringement.
Big Tech lawyers are riding high. A Delaware judge recently delivered a lengthy memo trampling the American justice system and supporting Big Tech’s longstanding efforts to crush smaller entrepreneurs.