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Links: EFF Asks for Nominations for Worst Internet Patents
Posted by James Grimmelmann on Thursday, June 10 @ 18:12:44 EDT Patent
The EFF is asking the public to submit nominations for "the ten worst offenders in the world of intellectual property." The EFF will then unleash its elite strike force of attack lawyers and fire-breathing technologists to have the Patent Office reexamine -- and, with luck, revoke -- the patents most damaging to Internet innovation. Entries should be:
  • Issued in the United States,
  • Related to software or the Internet,
  • Having a substanial negative effect on innovation,
  • The subject of active enforcement efforts by their holders,
  • Invalid, and
  • Stoo-pid.
Submit your entries here. The deadline is June 23. And stay tuned: once the winners are announced, the EFF will be putting out a call for help in researching and refuting these bogus patents.
 
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