{"id":13898,"date":"2014-08-23T11:19:46","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T16:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13898"},"modified":"2014-08-23T11:19:46","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T16:19:46","slug":"cost-of-defending-against-a-troll-is-more-than-just-a-bridge-toll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13898","title":{"rendered":"Cost of Defending Against A Troll Is More Than Just A Bridge Toll"},"content":{"rendered":"

In plain English: Take photos of a race, tag and sort by bib number and date, and search for photos based on that tag via the Internet. That\u2019s it.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re having a hard time seeing how this patent \u201cpromotes the progress of the sciences and the useful arts\u201d given that it seems to be a patent on numerical sorting and searching. Indeed, the Supreme Court recently ruled<\/a> that claims that simply add \u201cdo it on a computer\u201d to an abstract idea are not even eligible for patent protection. We think the patent clearly fails this test. (It\u2019s also likely not infringed<\/a>). But because it can take months (and even years) for the court to even consider those issues, they will likely never be decided. Patent litigation is expensive, so many small businesses can\u2019t afford to fight back no matter how weak the patent. That\u2019s part of the problem. Companies can get 20 year \u201cmonopolies\u201d after an average of 19 hours<\/a> of review by the Patent Office. And because the cost to get a patent can be orders of magnitude less than the cost to defend against it, there is an incentive for people to get patents in order to later force defendants into settlement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

via Cost of Defending Against A Troll Is More Than Just A Bridge Toll | Electronic Frontier Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In plain English: Take photos of a race, tag and sort by bib number and date, and search for photos based on that tag via the Internet. That\u2019s it. We\u2019re having a hard time seeing how this patent \u201cpromotes the … Continue reading →<\/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":[431,1135,875,301],"class_list":["post-13898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ip","tag-eff","tag-extortion","tag-litigation","tag-patent-trolls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13898","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=13898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13899,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13898\/revisions\/13899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}