Changes

In efforts to diminish the Patent Troll threat, the Innovation Act has heightened pleading requirements for parties filing for patent infringement. As of December 2015, Form 18, the form previously used to submit generalized patent infringement claims <ref name="patentlyo18" />, was eliminated in order to reduce patent litigation, especially involving Patent Trolls or Non-Practicing Entities.<ref name="nationallawreview" /> The act would go further in reducing generalized complaints and eliminating loopholes by requiring (with exceptions) the plaintiff to submit infringement charts with the initial complaint.<ref name="innovationactsummarypatentlyoIA" /> The purpose of the charts would include: *Identification of each patent allegedly infringed*All claims (heart of the patent, defines be to force the limits of exactly what the patent does) necessary plaintiff to produce explain the identification specifics of each process, machine, manufacturea claim, how a product or composition subsidiary company violates each infringed component of matter (accused instrumentalities) that infringe a patent and the patent*The name, model number, description scope of each AI*How each limitation of each claim is met by the AI*For indiret component's infringement, the acts of the infringer that are inducing a direct infringement*Authority of the party to assert each patent TL;DR If you believe your patent has been infringed on, you must write in your initial complaint letter VERY SPECIFIC information regarding exactly which parts of your patents have been violated and by what model/device.<ref name="patentlyoIA">