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EFF Tackles Bogus Podcasting Patent - And We Need Your Help
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| Patenting podcasting? You've got to be
| kidding. Yet a company called Volomedia
| just got the Patent Office to grant them
| such exclusive rights.
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| EFF and the law firm of Howrey, LLP arenât
| willing to just sit by and watch. This
| patent could threaten the vibrant community
| of podcasters and millions of podcast
| listeners. We want to put a stop to it, but
| we need your help.
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http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/11/eff-tackles-bogus-podcasting-patent-and-we-need-yo
Courgette meets a dangerous (Red) Bend
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| Even for patentese, this language tends
| toward the impenetrable. But once one
| realizes that "reference entries that
| contain reference that refer to other
| entries" means "addresses," it starts to
| become a little clearer. To your editor's
| overtly non-lawyerly, not-legal-advice
| reading, this claim does appear to describe
| what Courgette is doing.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/359939/
QinetiQ mail virus patent attracts barbs
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| An anti-virus expert has poured cold water
| on a patent from British technology firm
| QinetiQ that supposedly offers a new
| technique for tackling malicious email
| attachments.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/20/email_virus_block_patent/
Recent:
Federal Court Partially Invalidates One of EFF
Most Wanted Patents: Acacia Research Streaming Media
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| Ten claims from the Acacia Research Streaming Media Patent have
| been invalidated by the U.S.District Court for the Northern
| District of California. The Court invalidated the remaining
| claims that had been asserted in the litigation, after several
| others had been dropped from the suit by Acacia. EFF was not
| involved in the case, which was brought by Acacia against
| leading satellite and cable companies, Echostar, DirectTV, Time
| Warner Cable and CSC Holdings, Inc. Similar claims in related
| patents will also be invalid under the Court's analysis.
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http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/09/federal-court-partially-invalidates-one-eff-most-wanted-patents
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