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“At issue here is a reviews process that Congress created in 2011 to speed up patent disputes and deal with potentially questionable patents” reports pcgamer.com. While technology companies have an obviously vested interest in patent disputes and how they are handled, it was a legal squabble between two energy companies that ultimately brought the matter before the Supreme Court.The US Supreme Court voted 7-2 to uphold an administrative review process that has helped technology firms like Apple, Google, and Samsung to invalidate patents without taking the disputes to court, USA…

“Schlumberger said that the lower court ruling harms innovation by allowing companies to infringe competitors’ patents while risking minimal punishment” reports businessinsider.com. President Donald Trump’s administration backed Schlumberger, and urged the justices to overturn the lower court ruling, which it said “systematically undercompensates” U.S. patent owners who participate in cross-border commerce.Some justices, including conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch and liberal Justice Stephen Breyer, expressed concerns about applying U.S. patent laws abroad, while others indicated that Schlumberger should be fully compensated.In 2015, the Washington-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit,…