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"Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than
swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria."
--Richard Stallman
Patent Office Grants EFF Request for Reexamination of Dangerous VOIP Patent
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| The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has won reexamination of an illegitimate
| patent on voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP) that could cripple the adoption of new VoIP technologies.
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http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2010/02/05
Patent office to review VoIP patent
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| The patent, held by a small company called C2 Communications Technologies, is
| one of 10 that the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has been trying to
| strike down for several years through its Patent Busting Project. On Friday,
| the patent office granted the EFF's request for a re-examination, the
| EFF said. The digital civil-liberties organization argued that another
| applicant had submitted basically some of the same technology to the
| patent office before C2 did.
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/020610-patent-office-to-review-voip.html
Recent:
Unsafe Harbors: Abusive DMCA Subpoenas and Takedown Demands
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| The DMCA has been used to invade the privacy
| of Internet users, harass Internet service
| providers, and chill online speech. The
| subpoena and takedown powers of Section 512
| are not limited to cases of proven copyright
| infringement, and are exercised without a
| judge's review. The following is a small
| sampling of abuse, overreaching, and
| mistakes in the use of Section 512(h)
| subpoenas, Section 512(c)(3)(A) notices, and
| equivalents. Judicial oversight could curb
| these abuses without interfering with
| copyright enforcement.
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http://www.eff.org/wp/unsafe-harbors-abusive-dmca-subpoenas-and-takedown-demands
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