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Patent trolls have plagued tech companies for years -- but a new web site proposes a novel solution. "Everyone in the world can back the crowdfunding campaign against the patent," explains their site, which includes a "Featured stupid patents" section. After covering the cost of the fees for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and a lawyer, "The rest is distributed to those who find valid prior art...any evidence that a patent is not novel. We review all the prior art pieces and reward those that may invalidate a claim... Then, we file an ex partes reexamination to the USPTO."
The site's founders include the legal officer at Newegg, who has been fighting patent trolls in the courts for years -- and they came up with a great slogan for the site. "We invalidate patents that shouldn't exist."
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20 2016, @06:39PM
It is actually.
The US has been exporting its draconian patent laws around the world for decades. The most recent attempt being in a secretive fashion via "trade" (actually: investor rights) agreements like the TPPA.
Software patents are no legal in my own country by a hair's breadth and then only because there was a fuss kicked up over it in the press trying to protect our IT industry. The US tried its best though...
Of course should be sign up to the TPPA (which our current tory govt is hell bent on ) then it will, yet again, be the US who fucks up our way of life.