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Miguel Afonso Caetano"The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) just made a move that will protect bad patents at the expense of everyone else. In a memo released February 28, the USPTO further restricted access to inter partes review, or IPR—the process Congress created to let the public challenge invalid patents without having to wage million-dollar court battles.If left unchecked, this decision will shield bad patents from scrutiny, embolden patent trolls, and make it even easier for hedge funds and large corporations to weaponize weak patents against small businesses and developers."<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/new-uspto-memo-makes-fighting-patent-trolls-even-harder" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/new-uspto-memo-makes-fighting-patent-trolls-even-harder</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USPTO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPTO</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Patents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Patents</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PatentTrolls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PatentTrolls</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/IP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IP</a>

Hacker NewsNew USPTO Memo Makes Fighting Patent Trolls Even Harder<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/new-uspto-memo-makes-fighting-patent-trolls-even-harder" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/new-uspto-memo-makes-fighting-patent-trolls-even-harder</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HackerNews</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PatentTrolls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PatentTrolls</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPTO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPTO</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Memo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Memo</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IntellectualProperty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IntellectualProperty</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PatentReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PatentReform</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LegalChallenges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LegalChallenges</a>

Kevin Karhan :verified:<a href="https://indieweb.social/@jbz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@jbz</a> to some extent it is good because it <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/divest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#divest</a>|s and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/defund" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#defund</a>|s <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PatentTrolls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PatentTrolls</a> like <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Sisvel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sisvel</a> who harrassed busonesses all the time.<ul><li>But for the better the world has moved on and away from <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/mp3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mp3</a> and towards <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/vorbis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vorbis</a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/opus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#opus</a> and espechally <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FLAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FLAC</a>, and with <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/storage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#storage</a> cheaper than ever, tgere isn't as much oressure to compress the shit out of audio content.</li></ul>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"The rights we have in the offline world–to speak freely, create culture, play games, build new things and do business–must be available to us online, as well. This core belief drives EFF’s work to fight the misuse of the patent system. Despite significant progress we’ve made over the last decade, patents, and in particular vague software patents, remain a serious threat to online rights. The median patent lawsuit isn't filed by what Americans would recognize as an ‘inventor,’ but by an anonymous limited liability company that provides no products or services, and instead uses patents to threaten others over alleged infringement. In other words, a patent troll. In the tech sector, more than 85% of patent lawsuits are filed by these “non-practicing entities.” That’s why at EFF, we continue to help individuals and organizations fight patent threats related to everyday activities like using CAPTCHAs and picture menus, tracking packages or vehicles, teaching languages, holding online contests, or playing simple games online. Here’s where the fight stands as we move into 2025."<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/12/fighting-progress-patents-2024-review" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/12/fighting-progress-patents-2024-review</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Patents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Patents</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PatentTrolls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PatentTrolls</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/IP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IP</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"Good news: the Senate Judiciary Committee has dropped one of the two terrible patent bills it was considering, the patent-troll-enabling Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA).Bad news: the committee is still pushing the PREVAIL Act, a bill that would hamstring the U.S.’s most effective system for invalidating bad patents. PREVAIL is a windfall for patent trolls, and Congress should reject it.One of the most effective tools to fight bad patents in the U.S. is a little-known but important system called inter partes review, or IPR. Created by Congress in 2011, the IPR process addresses a major problem: too many invalid patents slip through the cracks at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. While not an easy or simple process, IPR is far less expensive and time-consuming than the alternative—fighting invalid patents in federal district court."<a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Patents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Patents</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/IP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IP</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PatentTrolls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PatentTrolls</a> <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/11/prevail-act-would-wreck-us-patent-review-system" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/11/prevail-act-would-wreck-us-patent-review-system</a>

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