Big tech doesn’t like PTAB reform---the link alone turns case through big tech pushing pro-PTAB legislation.
Innovation Alliance ’21 [December 3, 2021; The Innovation Alliance is a coalition of research and development-based technology companies representing innovators, patent owners, and stakeholders from a diverse range of industries that believe in the critical importance of maintaining a strong patent system that supports innovative enterprises of all sizes. “Innovation Alliance Fact Sheet: Why Big Tech is Seeking to Undermine PTAB Reforms,” Innovation Alliance; https://innovationalliance.net/from-the-alliance/innovation-alliance-fact-sheet-why-big-tech-is-seeking-to-undermine-ptab-reforms/; $G]
Big Tech companies have been the biggest users of the USPTO’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), filing hundreds of petitions challenging the patents of smaller innovators since the Board was established in 2012.
Big Tech infringers like the PTAB because it provides them with an additional tool to drag out infringement disputes and increase the cost of enforcing patents for smaller innovators.
These companies are now pushing legislation that would reverse recent reforms at the PTAB to tilt the balance further in their favor and make it even harder for patent owners to defend their intellectual property. This is a blatant effort by Big Tech to gain more power, allowing them to crush small competitors and maintain their market dominance. It would also help some of China’s biggest tech companies, including ZTE and Huawei, who are also among the top users of the PTAB.