Re: [Patents] EFF Waging War on BS Internet Patents

[Hartmut Pilch <phm@a2e.de>]

> > This is so freaking cool: EFF is going to start actively busting
> > bullshit Internet patents, hunting down prior art and getting the USPTO
> > to revoke the patents on their basis.
> 
> It's about EFF-ing time!  I had been exchanging emails with Brad Templeton
> back in November about patent abuse cases like Acacia, but they had their
> hands full. His last email was they were looking into forming a patent group
> to look into these issues....looks like they have thrown their hat into the
> ring.

I hope they don't focus on helping the PTO to bust what are "bad patents"  
according to PTO standards.  That is an exhausting activity and it could
suggest that the standards created by the PTO in disregard of public
opinion are an acceptable basis for solving the problems.

At this moment the USPTO is still pushing unlimited patentability on
others in the name of the US government.  Their targets include WIPO, the
EU (http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/eubsa-swpat0202/usrep0309/) as well as
Australia and others through bilateral trade agreements.

So there is a great need for people to investigate the abuses of the US
government, to spread the word about the European Parliament's decision
and to bring the subject into parliaments in the US.

-- 
Hartmut Pilch, FFII & Eurolinux Alliance              tel. +49-89-18979927
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