Sentences with phrase «eff staff attorney»
In a post on the group's blog today, EFF staff attorney Julie Samuels said Apple has put developers in a difficult position by requiring them to use within their apps in - app purchase (IAP), a mechanism that's been targeted by a third - party group that says the technology infringes on its patents.
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«This is an important victory for municipalities across the country that were faced with a tough choice: fighting an expensive lawsuit, paying ArrivalStar's settlement demands, or abandoning a public service,» said EFF Staff Attorney Julie Samuels, the Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents.
«More and more, people are using software and Internet technology to express themselves,» said EFF Staff Attorney Wendy Seltzer.
«Aggressive patent holders are using vague patent language to cause havoc in the software and Internet fields,» said Jason Schultz, EFF staff attorney and organizer of EFF's Patent Busting Project.
«Patent trolls have been wreaking havoc on innovative companies for some time now,» said EFF Staff Attorney Julie Samuels, who also holds the Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents.
«A podcaster working out of a garage is unlikely to have the financial resources to fight a lawsuit,» said EFF Staff Attorney Daniel Nazer.
threatens to turn millions of ordinary computer users into criminals,» said EFF Staff Attorney Jamie Williams.
«This ruling threatens to turn millions of ordinary computer users into criminals,» said EFF Staff Attorney Jamie Williams.
«Software errors are extremely common across all kinds of products,» said EFF Staff Attorney Kit Walsh.
Patents are supposed to help promote new inventions and ideas, but software patents are chronically misused to limit competition, quash new tools and products, and shake down companies big and small,» said EFF Staff Attorney Julie Samuels.
«It's time to force these trolls to take responsibility for the damage they cause with their bogus claims,» said Julie Samuels, EFF Staff Attorney and the Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents.
«Vague patents are extraordinarily prevalent in software, and they are a favorite tool of patent trolls,» said EFF Staff Attorney Daniel Nazer.
«As we cited in our petition, podcasts were being done long before Personal Audio claims to have invented podcasting, by CNN, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and Carl Malamud's Geek of the Week online radio show,» said EFF staff attorney Daniel Nazer, who also holds the EFF's Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents.
«Bogus patents like this one are good examples of what's wrong with the current patent system,» said EFF Staff Attorney Jason Schultz.
Not only did three of the four patents expire two years before Mr. Cugle started his mail order business, they are not valid in the first place and he hasn't infringed anything,» said EFF Staff Attorney Vera Ranieri.
«Patents are meant to protect companies against giant competitors, not to help them prey on folks who can barely afford a lawyer,» said EFF Staff Attorney Jason Schultz, who leads the Patent Busting Project.
«Bogus patents like these are hurting innovation and education in America,» said EFF Staff Attorney Jason Schultz, who heads up the project.
As it stands, many defendants can be hauled into court in any corner of the country, regardless of whether the location has anything to do with either party,» said EFF Staff Attorney Vera Ranieri.
«Patents traditionally only targeted large commercial companies,» said EFF Staff Attorney Jason...
«Litigants must not be permitted to abuse the judicial process to identity anonymous individuals who have simply created a forum for critical comments or made statements a plaintiff dislikes,» said EFF Staff Attorney Matt Zimmerman.
EFF staff attorney Kurt Opsahl, who coordinated the project, says EFF will continue to add to the guide over the next several months.
On this edition of Lawyer2Lawyer, my cohost J. Craig Williams and I talk with Richard Baker and Brad Liddle, Personal Audio's president of licensing, and Daniel Nazer, EFF staff attorney, to hear their thoughts on what defines a patent troll, the specifics behind the cases, and more.
«Today's decision is a victory for the rights of journalists, whether online or offline, and for the public at large,» EFF Staff Attorney Kurt Opsahl, who argued the case before the appeals court last month, said in a statement on EFF's site.
Making such promises and failing to live up to them is a violation of FTC rules against unfair and deceptive business practices,» EFF Staff Attorney Nate Cardozo said.
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«DRM on e-books is about protecting business models and technology platforms, not about protecting authors,» said Fred von Lohmann, a senior staff attorney at the EFF.
«It's used disturbingly often to censor content that someone doesn't like, to censor speech someone doesn't like, precisely because it's so easy to use,» EFF Senior Staff Attorney Mitch Stoltz told me.
«Wikis and other community sites are home to many vibrant discussions among hobbyists and tinkerers,» added EFF Senior Staff Attorney Fred von Lohmann.
Daniel Nazer, a staff attorney working on the campaign, represents EFF on the program.
For on - the - spot counsel at the conferences, the EFF set up an attorney - staffed information booth to ease the minds of concerned security researchers.
As a Senior Staff Attorney at EFF, he regularly litigated issues surrounding free expression and electronic surveillance, and was a lead counsel in EFF's lawsuits against the National Security Agency and AT&T, challenging the legality of the NSA warrantless wiretapping program first revealed in 2005.
«Bad patents like this one slow down innovation — exactly the opposite of what the patent system was intended to do,» said EFF Senior Staff Attorney Julie Samuels, the Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents.
«More and more people are using the Internet to exercise free speech and other individual rights,» said Staff Attorney Jason Schultz, one of the authors of the EFF brief.
Daniel Nazer, a staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), an international nonprofit digital rights group, believes the bill is an important first step in addressing low - quality patents, but that more needs to be done.
A better approach would be to eschew sanctions and export control altogether, says Nate Cardozo, staff attorney at EFF.
Cuban's $ 250,000 donation also funds the hire of a new attorney experienced in patent reform and high profile patent litigation: Daniel Nazer, who will join EFF in January as a Staff Aattorney experienced in patent reform and high profile patent litigation: Daniel Nazer, who will join EFF in January as a Staff AttorneyAttorney.
«It wouldn't make sense to patent simple ideas like ways of running a business or prioritizing a to - do list,» said EFF Senior Staff Attorney Julie Samuels, who also holds the Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents.
San Francisco - Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Staff Attorney Daniel Nazer has become the new «Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents.»