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Tulane, Southern law clinics offer entrepreneurs intellectual property help
""We get questions all the time about, 'Can you help me with my patent?' But we couldn't until we got certification," said Elizabeth…
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EFF: Stupid patents are dragging down AI and machine learning
"Just as the US Patent Office problematically gave out patents in the past for computers doing simple things like counting votes or counting calories, the…
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JP Morgan Chase just got a patent on basic app communications
"How was such a broad and obvious idea allowed to be patented?" asks EFF patent attorney Daniel Nazer. "As we have explained many times before, t…
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Court says patent troll didn’t invent podcasting
"“We’re pleased that the Federal Circuit agreed that the podcasting patent is invalid,” said Daniel Nazer, a staff attorney at the EFF and the Mark Cuban C…
Stupid Patent of the Month: Using A Computer To Count Calories
This month’s stupid patent, like many stupid patents before it, simply claims the idea of using a computer for basic calculations. U.S. Patent No. 6,817,863 (th…
Instagram made a Snapchat knockoff. Can they even do that?
""Ideas, before you actually put them to work, are very vulnerable to stealing," said University of California, Hastings law professor Ben Depoor…
Supreme Court Says Patent Trolls Can Wait A While Before Suing
In a ruling this week that will cheer up patent trolls, the Supreme Court said patent owners can lie in wait for years before suing. This will allow trolls to s…
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IBM Gives Up Out-Of-Office Email Patent EFF Called 'Stupid'
"Speaking by phone to Law360, Nazer said Thursday he believed the disclaimer was directly linked to his post given the timing, and the fact that IBM filed…
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IBM gets a patent on “out-of-office” e-mail messages—in 2017
"The "invention" represented in the '842 patent is starkly at odds with the real history of technology, accessible in this case via a basic G…
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How Lexmark's patent fight to crush an ink reseller will affect us all
"Daniel Nazer, staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents, said in a phone interview with The Re…
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EFF’s Stupid Patent of the Month: Streaming cloud-based content
"US Patent No. 8,856,221 is called the "System and method for storing broadcast content in a cloud-based computing environment." In short, the in…
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Are Blockchain Patents a Bad Idea?
"Daniel Nazer, a lawyer with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told Fortune that applications to patent the blockchain — which is a form of software — fa…