This year, EFF and several tech policy organizations launched Trolling Effects,
a database of demand letters that patent trolls use as perhaps their strongest — and stealthiest — weapon.
Trolling Effects is
a database of demand letters, open to the public.
Not exact matches
EFF, alongside a number
of public interest groups, is creating Trolling Effects, an online
database of patent troll
demand letters.
It would also create a publicly available
demand letter database (something we're obviously in favor
of — check out Trolling Effects).
Since 2012, DDT sent
demand letters to and initiated lawsuits against a number
of real estate firms alleging that the firms» websites infringe U.S. Patent No. 6,529,908 («the «908 Patent») entitled «Web - Updated
Database with Record Distribution by Email.»
The
letter noted the absence
of a licensing agreement between the two companies and
demanded the brokerage «immediately cease any access to or distribution or other use
of the copyrighted MRIS MLS
database or any
of the informational content therefrom.»