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Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 01:48:40 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation

The U.S. Senate is on the verge of giving a huge gift to patent trolls. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/09/senate-vote-tomorrow-could-give-helping-hand-patent-trolls
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1. Senate Vote Tomorrow Could Give Helping Hand To Patent Trolls
  
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  A patent on crowdfunding. A patent on tracking packages. A patent on photo contests. A patent on watching an ad online. A patent on computer bingo. A patent on upselling. These are just a few of the patents used to harass software developers and small companies in recent years. Thankfully, they...
- Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 02:10:10 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation
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  If you haven't written to Congress about this, use our action center to do it today! https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-we-can-t-afford-more-bad-patents
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    Tell Congress: We Can't Afford More Bad Patents
    
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    Congress is pushing two bills that would bring back some of the worst patents and empower patent trolls. The Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA), S. 2140, would throw out crucial rules that ban patents on many abstract ideas. Courts will be ordered to approve patents on things like ordering food on a mobile phone or doing basic financial functions online. If PERA Passes, the floodgates will open for these vague software patents that will be used to sue small companies and individuals. This bill even allows for a type of patent on human genes that the Supreme Court rightly disallowed in 2013. A second bill, the PREVAIL Act, S. 2220, would sharply limit the public’s right to challenge patents that never should have been granted in the first place.
- the_wiggler (the_wiggler@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 23:02:50 JST the_wiggler
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  @eff what the actual hell is this bill?
  
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