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One weird legal trick that makes patent trolls cry
The Judicial Conference of the US has approved the elimination of Rule 84, a court procedure designed to help small patent-holders streamline their lawsuits, but which has been weaponized by patent...
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Stupid patent for the ages: "Changing order quantities"
The USPTO granted a notorious patent troll a patent on allowing customers to change quantities after they place their initial order. Eclipse IP LLC is part of the patent troll elite, having filed over...
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Is patent trolling going out of style?
Patent reform, though limited, has been enough to hurt the market for certain types of patent, reports Ina Fried. Over the past couple of years, more patents are being overturned as part of a more...
View ArticlePatent trolls: The Eastern District of Texas must die so that we all may live
Ever since VE Holding, a 1990 Federal Circuit decision, patent holders have been able to sue their adversaries in practically any court in America, leading to competition among jurisdictions to see...
View ArticlePatent trolls' favorite East Texas court awards costs against one of them
The plaintiff-friendly East Texas district has long been patent trolls' favorite place to file lawsuits, but one was so egregious that even their favorite judge has not only shut it down, but awarded...
View ArticleAppeals court orders confirms patent troll must pay costs
Following a 2014 verdict, courts may now punish patent trolls with the defense costs that their litigation incurs. An appeals court has now upheld an attorney fees ruling handed to Lumen View, a...
View ArticlePatent fighters attack the crown jewels of three of America's worst patent...
Unified Patents raises money from companies that are the target of patent-trolling and then uses it to challenge the most widely used patents in each of its members' sectors: now it's going for the...
View ArticleThe Trolls: hilarious comedy about...patent trolls?
The Trolls is a new indie feature about plucky entrepreneurs who have their lives destroyed by patent trolls, so they patent the act of being a patent troll, and turn the tables!
View ArticlePublic universities and even the US Navy have sold hundreds of patents to...
Researcher Yarden Katz scraped the database of Intellectual Ventures, a giant business that buys up patents, but produces nothing but lawsuits (previously), and discovered that IV claims ownership of...
View ArticleDonald Trump, Jr is a patent-troll and his biggest client now does business...
Oklahoma's Anyware Mobile Solutions was founded in 1997 to make PDA software, but after its sales collapsed, it changed its name to Macrosolve and devoted itself to suing people for violating a...
View ArticleCrowdfunded by listeners, EFF perma-kills a bogus podcasting patent
Five years ago, a patent troll called "Personal Audio" started demanding money from podcasters, claiming that their patent on mailing cassette tapes of people reading magazines (a ridiculous patent on...
View ArticlePharma giant Allergan pays Mohawk tribe to serve as human shields against...
Allergan has disclosed that it transferred title to six of its contested eye drug patents to the St Regis Mohawk band in upstate New York, in a bid to use the band's sovereign immunity to prevent...
View ArticleAmerica's worst patent judge gets a scorching language lesson from the...
Judge Rodney Gilstrap serves the Eastern District of Texas court, the venue from which patent trolls have extorted billions in useless menaces money from US industry; Gilstrap hears 25% of the patent...
View ArticleIndigenous tribes fronting for patent trolls sue Apple
A couple weeks ago, we learned that pharma giant Allergan had transferred title to its most profitable eye drugs to New York's St Regis Mohawk band in order to invoke the band's "sovereign immunity"...
View ArticleAfter industry adopts open video standards, MPEG founder says the end is nigh
Leonardo Chiariglione is founder and chairman of the International Standards Organization's Motion Picture Expert Group (MPEG), whose standards have dominated video playback since the earliest days;...
View ArticleThe Internet of Connected Sex Toys is every bit as horrifyingly insecure and...
The rush to put networked sensors and controllers into sex toys is grounded in foolish, convenient untruths, like the idea that the incredibly sensitive data generated by these systems can be...
View ArticleEFF has comprehensively killed the bullshit podcasting patent
Back in 2014, a patent troll called Personal Audio LLC embarked on a campaign to shake down podcasters large and small for millions, but then they made the mistake of tangling with the Electronic...
View ArticleAppeals court kills the dirty trick of using Indian tribes as a front for...
In late 2017, we learned that patent trolls (especially pharma patent gougers) were paying US Native Indian tribes to act as fronts for them in order to block review and cancellation of bogus patents...
View ArticleBig Bang: the "stupid patent" on teledildonics has expired
Twenty years ago, the US Patent and Trademark Office granted patent number 6,368,268: "Method and device for interactive virtual control of sexual aids using digital computer networks," a minor...
View ArticleAmerica's most notorious patent troll, now bankrupt, values its bullshit...
For more than a decade, Shipping and Transit LLC (AKA Arrivalstar) has been aggressively pursuing dubious patent claims against public transit companies, shippers, and other businesses whose practices...
View ArticlePatent trolls celebrate as Trump's new rules breathes fresh life into...
A golden age of blackmail began in 1996, when the US Patent and Trademark Office created extremely generous criteria for when software could be patented, allowing every shitty grifter to register a...
View ArticleHow Epson's patent trolling is killing the EU market for replacement ink
If you're thinking of buying an Epson printer, think again (if you were unlucky enough to buy one already, consider switching): in an industry marked by the dirtiest of tricks to force customers to...
View ArticleInsider sources say Apple is shutting its east Texas stores to escape the...
The Eastern District of Texas is home to a crooked court that is in the pocket of patent trolls, handing down ludicrous rulings in favor of the trolls, whose "head offices" are tiny, unoccupied...
View ArticleNew Hampshire court to patent troll: it's not libel when someone calls you a...
New Hampshire's Supreme Court has ruled that calling someone a "patent troll" is not defamatory because "patent troll" is a statement of opinion and can neither be factually proved nor disproved. The...
View ArticleMakers of GNOME, the free desktop environment, sued by infamous patent troll
An notorious patent troll filed a lawsuit against GNOME over a photo management app it offers with its Linux desktop environment. Florida man Leigh M. Rothschild was only recently awarded a patent...
View ArticleGNOME fires back at patent troll
A notorious "patent troll" — an acquirer of vague or trivial patents whose only real business is to shake down companies that offer implicated products — recently targeted GNOME, developers of a...
View ArticleThe inspiring story of how Cloudflare defeated a patent troll and broke the...
In 2016, Cloudflare was targeted by a notorious patent troll called Blackbird Technologies; rather than capitulate, the company set up a fund called "Project Jengo" to pay bounties to researchers who...
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SparkFun's CEO vs. patent troll
A patent troll is "a company that is specifically set up to purchase the rights to a handful of patents and then sue anyone they feel they can get money from," writes Nate Seidle, founder of the...
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Patent troll takes aim at George Hotz's AI company
Comma.ai, developer of OpenPilot open-source AI-based autonomous driving software, was founded by legendary PlayStation and iPhone hacker George Hotz. Axel Nix is an electrical engineer who has a...
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