{"id":10768,"date":"2013-09-01T09:43:48","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T14:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10768"},"modified":"2013-09-01T11:25:44","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T16:25:44","slug":"patent-trolls-put-brakes-on-s-f-transit-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10768","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Patent trolls&#8217; put brakes on S.F. transit app"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As far as anyone on the outside can tell, this is their sole business model: leveraging patents not to build competitive products, but simply to strong-arm others into forking over money when they create something that stumbles into the broadly worded language of the intellectual property protections.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/technology\/dotcommentary\/article\/Patent-trolls-put-brakes-on-S-F-transit-app-4778304.php\">&#8216;Patent trolls&#8217; put brakes on S.F. transit app &#8211; SFGate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He was confident the patents in question were bogus, loose legalese describing obvious ideas. Moreover, the service that he received his data from, NextBus, already had a license to use those\u00a0patents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As far as anyone on the outside can tell, this is their sole business model: leveraging patents not to build competitive products, but simply to strong-arm others into forking over money when they create something that stumbles into the broadly &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10768\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[584,442,301,308],"class_list":["post-10768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-appforthat","tag-business-model","tag-patent-trolls","tag-startups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10768"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10778,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10768\/revisions\/10778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}