Sentences with phrase «illegitimate patents»

Illegitimate patents currently in effect could prevent you from building a hobbyist website or even streaming a wedding video to your friends.

This data demonstrates how reexamination can help limit the impact of illegitimate patents on the public domain.

EFF is of course concerned with the effect illegitimate patents have on innovation.

Seer Systems was awarded this illegitimate patent for a system and method for joining different musical data types together in a file, distributing them...

San Francisco - The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has announced that it will revoke an illegitimate patent on Internet subdomains as a result of the Electronic Frontier Foundation's (EFF) Patent Busting Project campaign.

Illegitimate Patent Chills Distance Learning and University Education San Francisco - An extremely broad patent claiming to cover almost all methods of online testing is coming under fire today.

Test.com has used this illegitimate patent to demand payments from universities with distance education programs that give tests online.

Patent Office Orders Reexamination at EFF's Request San Francisco - At the request of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) today agreed to reexamine an illegitimate patent held by Clear Channel Communications.

These companies have established legal departments and outside counsel and are thus able to defend against illegitimate patent threats.

The statute allows the Vermont Attorney General or defending party against illegitimate patent assertions to bring a lawsuit against the patent asserting entity.

Instead, it provides judges several factors that distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate patent assertions.

Sheldon F. Goldberg was awarded the illegitimate patent for online gaming systems that use tournament - style play, advertising, and real - time updates of ladder - rankings in multi-player games.

Not exact matches

San Francisco, CA - In light of growing concerns about illegitimate software and Internet patents, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today announced a new initiative to combat the chilling effects bad patents have on public and consumer interests.

San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has won reexamination of an illegitimate music patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent and Trademark Office (PTO).

Conversely, the statute provides that patent assertions can be considered illegitimate when they don't provide one or more the following:

«We're sending a message to this company, and more broadly to any company that relies on overbroad, invalid patents coupled with illegitimate «troll» patent litigation tactics to make money, that the real estate industry is prepared to fight back,» he said.

By making important reforms to the nation's patent litigation system, the Innovation Act would address abusive practices by patent trolls that bully American businesses, including many REALTORS ®, with deceptive and often illegitimate claims of patent infringement.