by Assistant Professor Colleen Chien, Santa Clara University Law School, colleenchien@gmail.com, @colleen_chien (Download PDF of this at SSRN) Following President’s Obama remarks and reintroduction of the SHIELD Act, today the House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet is holding hearings on litigation abuse by patent trolls (aka patent assertion entities or PAEs). [read post]