I wonder if patent trolls aka NPEs are concerned about the rising cost of doing business? Or does tech giants banding together against them like this just a minor cost? https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2023/7/24/soundstreak-texas-av-recording-patent-found-invalid-in-reexam
#patents #IP #PatentTrolls

#5yrsago Appeals court kills the dirty trick of using Indian tribes as a front for #PatentTrolls and claiming sovereign immunity https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/07/court-native-american-tribe-cant-be-a-sovereign-shield-during-patent-review/

#5yrsago What it’s like when Nazis infiltrate your conference https://twitter.com/JairusKhan/status/1021576115670933511

#5yrsago Watchdog: UK spies engaged in illegal surveillance from 2001-2012 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44936592

#5yrsago #Equifax says it’s spent $200m on security since the breach, so everything’s OK now https://www.wired.com/story/equifax-security-overhaul-year-after-breach/

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I'm against slander or unwanted attention, but I do hope that this results in patent trolls being messed with. https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/28/uspto-trademark-data-api-leak/

#DataLeak #DataBreach #Leaked #Leak #Leaks #Patent #UnitedStates #PatentTrolls #USPTO

Ars Technica: Smart TV industry rocked by alleged patent conspiracy from chipmaker https://arstechnica.com/?p=1946488 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #semiconductor #patenttrolls #Mediatek #smarttvs #Realtek #Policy #chips

Smart TV industry rocked by alleged patent conspiracy from chipmaker - Enlarge (credit: Anadolu Agency / Contributor | Anadolu)

Durin... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1946488 #semiconductor #patenttrolls #mediatek #smarttvs #realtek #policy #chips

#10yrsago Leaked top-secret court order shows that #NSA engages in bulk, sustained, warrantless surveillance of Americans https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-records-verizon-court-order

#10yrsago Time for total war on #PatentTrolls https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/how-to-make-war-on-patent-trolls

#5yrsago UPS #Teamsters ready to stage America’s biggest #strike since 1997, with solidarity as the main sticking point https://money.cnn.com/2018/06/05/news/companies/ups-teamsters-negotiations/index.html

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#USA #Patents #IP #PatentTrolls: "The U.S. Patent Office has proposed new rules about who can challenge wrongly granted patents. If the rules become official, they will offer new protections to patent trolls. Challenging patents will become far more onerous, and impossible for some. The new rules could stop organizations like EFF, which used this process to fight the Personal Audio “podcasting patent,” from filing patent challenges altogether.

We need EFF supporters to speak out against this proposal, which is a gift for patent trolls. We’re asking supporters who care about a fair patent system to file comments using the federal government’s public comment system. Your comments don’t need to be long, or use fancy legalese. The important thing is that everyday users and creators of technology get a chance to state their opposition to these rules. Below the button you can see a simple proposed comment you can cut-and-paste; you can also add to it, or write your own."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/06/our-right-challenge-junk-patents-under-threat

#USA #Patents #IP #PatentTrolls: "Government officials should be working to reduce, not increase, the burden that low-quality patent lawsuits impose on innovators. So we’re concerned and dismayed by recent briefs filed by the U.S. Solicitor General, asking the Supreme Court to reexamine and throw out the best legal defenses regular people have against “patent trolls”—companies that don’t make products or provide services, but simply use patents to sue and threaten others."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/why-us-solicitor-general-trying-change-law-benefit-patent-trolls

#PatentTrolls - who secure "with a computer" patents and then extract ransoms from people doing normal things on threat of a lawsuit - are an underappreciated form of "#TechExceptionalism." Normally, "tech exceptionalism" refers to bros who wave away things like privacy invasions by arguing that "with a computer" makes it all different.

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#10yrsago Paying #PatentTrolls off makes you complicit in the next round of extortion https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2013/04/02/the-patent-protection-racket/

#10yrsago What #WalledGardens do to the health of the Web, and what to do about it https://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2013/04/02/berkman-anil-dash-on-the-web-we-lost/

#5yrsago Scammy phone company #Centurylink: “No one can sue us because we don’t have any customers” https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/04/centurylink-fights-billing-fraud-lawsuit-by-claiming-that-it-has-no-customers/

#5yrsago Facebook: Actually, looks like #CambridgeAnalytica got 87 million user records https://about.fb.com/news/2018/04/restricting-data-access/

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Reminder that #PatentTrolls deserve no quarter.

If they want out, they can dissolve their charter.

#patent

Federal Circuit has temporarily paused Judge Connolly’s order that entities in his court disclose details of any third-party litigation funding arrangements. #patenttrolls #npe #patents #patentlitigation

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/judge-connollys-patent-case-funding-probe-frozen-by-fed-cirk

@PatentJosh has a decent write up, including One ... is a food truck owner who testified that he was approached about a 'passive income' opportunity and that he didn’t know who had set up his LLC.
https://www.patentprogress.org/2022/11/federal-circuit-temporarily-pauses-judge-connollys-disclosure-orders-in-delaware/

#patentTrolls just suck, they offer no benefit to anything, except to themselves. Nothing. I just read this, where #Intel owes $2+ billion to a company that doesn't produce anything, except the law suit, that is. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-02/intel-told-to-pay-2-18-billion-after-losing-texas-patent-trial
So i was thinking, they should make a law so that a #patent is considered abandon(ie can't sue), if the owner has no plans on producing anything using the patent concept or anything derived from the original idea. Seem like a common sense solution.

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#Troll Hunter – Mycroft’s Position on Patent Trolls https://mycroft.ai/blog/troll-hunter-mycrofts-position-on-patent-trolls/ #patenttrolls

Under new leadership, the patent office is trying to reinterpret a supreme court case in a way that would enable #patenttrolls to win lawsuits against small software companies and developers. This is a petition to keep the current interpretation of the case:

https://act.eff.org/action/save-alice-tell-the-patent-office-to-apply-supreme-court-law

Feel free to boost!

Great post from @Nextclouders on how they're protecting themselves against #patenttrolls https://buff.ly/2DKcepT pic.twitter.com/PAIJpyBSp2 #nextcloud