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#PatentTrolls

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Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"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.</p><p>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."</p><p><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"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/new-</span><span class="invisible">uspto-memo-makes-fighting-patent-trolls-even-harder</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USPTO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPTO</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Patents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Patents</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PatentTrolls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PatentTrolls</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/IP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IP</span></a></p>
Hacker News<p>New USPTO Memo Makes Fighting Patent Trolls Even Harder</p><p><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"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/new-</span><span class="invisible">uspto-memo-makes-fighting-patent-trolls-even-harder</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PatentTrolls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PatentTrolls</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPTO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPTO</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Memo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Memo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IntellectualProperty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IntellectualProperty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PatentReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PatentReform</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LegalChallenges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LegalChallenges</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://indieweb.social/@jbz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>jbz</span></a></span> to some extent it is good because it <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/divest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>divest</span></a>|s and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/defund" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>defund</span></a>|s <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PatentTrolls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PatentTrolls</span></a> like <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Sisvel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sisvel</span></a> who harrassed busonesses all the time.</p><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">#<span>mp3</span></a> and towards <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/vorbis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vorbis</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/opus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opus</span></a> and espechally <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FLAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FLAC</span></a>, and with <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/storage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>storage</span></a> cheaper than ever, tgere isn't as much oressure to compress the shit out of audio content.</li></ul>
LavX News<p>Join the Fight Against Patent Trolls: Become a Cloud Native Hero!</p><p>In the battle against patent trolls, the Cloud Native Heroes Challenge invites tech enthusiasts to contribute prior art and win prizes. This initiative, co-hosted by CNCF and Unified Patents, aims to ...</p><p><a href="https://news.lavx.hu/article/join-the-fight-against-patent-trolls-become-a-cloud-native-hero" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.lavx.hu/article/join-the-</span><span class="invisible">fight-against-patent-trolls-become-a-cloud-native-hero</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/OpenSourceInnovation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSourceInnovation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/PatentTrolls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PatentTrolls</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/PriorArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PriorArt</span></a></p>
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