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EFF - Electronic Frontier Foundation
ACTION ALERT
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Our Right To Challenge Junk Patents Is Under Threat
Tell the USPTO To Protect the Patent Review Process by Tuesday, June 20
The U.S. Patent Office has proposed new rules about who can challenge
wrongly granted patents. If the rules become official, they will offer
new protections to patent trolls. Challenging patents will become far
more onerous, and impossible for some. The new rules could stop
organizations like EFF, which used this process to fight the Personal Audio
“podcasting patent,” from filing patent challenges altogether.
Note: This link goes directly to the USPTO comment page, not EFF's website.
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TELL USPTO TO WORK FOR THE PUBLIC, NOT PATENT TROLLS
We’re asking supporters who care about a fair patent system to file
comments using the federal government’s public comment system.
Your comments don’t need to be long, or use fancy legalese. The
important thing is that everyday users and creators of technology get a
chance to state their opposition to these rules. We need EFF supporters to speak out
against this proposal, which is a gift for patent trolls. The deadline for comments is
Tuesday, June 20.
The proposed rules affect the inter partes review, or IPR, process. You
can read more about EFF’s views on the proposed rules in our blog post
about them, and can read the proposed rules on the Federal Register website.
If you have a personal experience with patent troll attacks, please mention it.
Comments are not anonymous and you should use your real name.
Below this paragraph you can see a simple proposed comment you can
cut-and-paste to express your opposition to the rules. It's even better if
you add one sentence or more to the comment, especially if you can mention
your own experience with the patent system. Of course, you can also write your
own original comment.
Sample comment:
I am opposed to the USPTO’s proposed rules changes for inter partes review (IPR)
and other patent challenges. These proposed rules should be withdrawn, and
the IPR process should remain open to all. The USPTO should follow the rules
Congress set out, and consider all patent challenges, including IPR petitions, on their merits.
TAKE ACTION: [link removed]
TELL USPTO TO WORK FOR THE PUBLIC, NOT PATENT TROLLS
The U.S. patent system remains wildly imbalanced—in favor of patent owners, not
patent challengers. These proposed rules show that USPTO has it backwards. Please
join us and speak out through the public comment process. No one should tolerate a
patent troll takeover at PTAB.
Yours,
Joe Mullin
EFF Activism Team
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Activism | Impact Litigation | Technology
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