An EFF Initiative To Protect Innovation and Free Expression
Just seen this, what do you think?
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Every year numerous illegitimate patent applications make their way through the United States patent examination process without adequate review . The problem is particularly acute in the software and Internet fields where the history of prior inventions (often called ?prior art?) is widely distributed and poorly documented. As a result, we have seen patents asserted on such simple technologies as:
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EFF is running a patent busting contest
asking internet users to submitt patents which they represent an abuse of the patent filing systems
one of arcadia patents is currently listed on the front page of the contest
"Once it has identified some of the worst offenders, EFF will begin filing challenges to each in the form of a ?re-examination request? to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. These requests create a forum to affirmatively invalidate patents rather than forcing technology users to await the threat of suit. Under this procedure, EFF can choose particularly egregious patents, submit the prior art it has collected, and argue that the patent should be revoked. EFF will collaborate with members of the software and Internet communities as well as legal clinics and pro bono cooperating attorneys to help in these efforts. "
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it is really important that you vote for arcadia patents to help get them revoked.