{"id":11180,"date":"2013-09-25T10:22:30","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T15:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11180"},"modified":"2013-09-25T10:22:30","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T15:22:30","slug":"hundreds-of-innovators-tell-congress-to-stop-patent-troll-abuse-and-legislate-cheaper-faster-ways-to-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11180","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of Innovators Tell Congress to Stop Patent Troll Abuse and Legislate Cheaper, Faster Ways to Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The Alliance <a href=\"http:\/\/devsbuild.it\/patent-reform-letter\">letter<\/a> calls for legislation that would:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Create a cheaper, faster alternative to litigation by allowing the Patent Office to review \u2013 when evidence justifies \u2013 all business method and software patents so that start-ups have a chance to fight against the low-quality patents that are trolls&#8217; best ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Require the Patent Office to create public searchable demand letter databases so we can track the basis and volume of patent claims and quickly identify abusive trolls;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Reduce litigation costs by requiring parties to pay if they demand more in discovery than \u201ccore\u201d technology documents, which are generally all that is needed to know if a technology is infringing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Protect end-users of off-the-shelf hardware and software. Just as coffee shops should not be sued for providing wi-fi to customers, app developers should not be sued for using off-the-shelf APIs that infringe a patent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/appdevelopersalliance.org\/2013-09-23-OpenLetter\">Hundreds of Innovators Tell Congress to Stop Patent Troll Abuse and Legislate Cheaper, Faster Ways to Fight | Application Developers Alliance<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Alliance letter calls for legislation that would: &#8211; Create a cheaper, faster alternative to litigation by allowing the Patent Office to review \u2013 when evidence justifies \u2013 all business method and software patents so that start-ups have a chance &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11180\">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":[33],"tags":[1114,34],"class_list":["post-11180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ip","tag-legislation","tag-patents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11180","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=11180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11181,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11180\/revisions\/11181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}