{"id":11483,"date":"2013-10-24T14:07:28","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T19:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11483"},"modified":"2013-10-24T10:08:01","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T15:08:01","slug":"troll-killing-patent-reform-one-step-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11483","title":{"rendered":"Troll-Killing Patent Reform One Step Closer"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Of course, today\u2019s discussion draft is not perfect. Compared to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2013\/02\/help-eff-fight-patent-trolls-and-support-shield-act\">Shield Act<\/a>, the attorney\u2019s fees provision is watered down. (It does not include a bond requirement, for example.) And the customer suit provision is too weak. We need <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2013\/05\/hey-patent-trolls-pick-someone-your-own-size\">stronger reform<\/a> to stop the disturbing trend of patent trolls picking on customers and end users. Finally, today\u2019s discussion draft focuses on litigation system, rather than targeting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2013\/02\/deep-dive-software-patents-and-rise-patent-trolls\">root cause<\/a> of the problem: the flood of low-quality, over-broad software patents. Despite these reservations, we are encouraged to see so many good reforms in a single package.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2013\/09\/troll-killing-patent-reform-one-step-closer\">Troll-Killing Patent Reform One Step Closer | Electronic Frontier Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, today\u2019s discussion draft is not perfect. Compared to the Shield Act, the attorney\u2019s fees provision is watered down. (It does not include a bond requirement, for example.) And the customer suit provision is too weak. We need stronger &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11483\">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":[1114,301],"class_list":["post-11483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ip","tag-legislation","tag-patent-trolls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11483","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=11483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11484,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11483\/revisions\/11484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}