Obama Issues Orders to Stop ‘Patent Trolls’ - NYTimes.com

Interesting intellectual property times

"Microsoft expressed wariness about some of the president’s plans. Horacio Gutierrez, deputy general counsel at Microsoft, said in a blog post that the company was “concerned and surprised” that the proposal “goes beyond patent assertion entities and instead targets software innovations more broadly.”
Intellectual Ventures, one of the largest companies that specializes in owning and protecting patents, said it believes the provisions requiring more disclosure on ownership of a patent are “misguided and merit further discussion.”"

Obama Issues Orders to Stop ‘Patent Trolls’ - NYTimes.com