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EFF Busts Bogus Internet Subdomain Patent
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| San Francisco - The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has announced that it
| will revoke an illegitimate patent on Internet subdomains as a result of the
| Electronic Frontier Foundation's (EFF) Patent Busting Project campaign.
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| U.S. Patent No. 6,687,746, now held by Hoshiko, LLC, claimed to cover the
| method of automatically assigning Internet subdomains, like "action.eff.org"
| for the parent domain "eff.org." Previous patent owner Ideaflood used this
| bogus patent to demand payment from website hosting companies offering
| personalized domains, such as LiveJournal, a social networking site where
| each of its three million users may have their own subdomain.
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http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2009/06/16
Recent:
EFF Launches TOSBack - A 'Terms of Service' Tracker for Facebook, Google, eBay,
and More
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| "Terms of Service" policies on websites define how Internet businesses
| interact with you and use your personal information. But most web users don't
| read these policies -- or understand that the terms are constantly changing.
| To track these ever-evolving documents, the Electronic Frontier Foundation
| (EFF) is launching "TOSBack": a "terms of service" tracker for Facebook,
| Google, eBay, and other major websites.
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http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2009/06/03-0
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