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AskPatents.com: A Stack Exchange To Prevent Bad Patents
We’ve all heard the stories of seemingly trivial patents being used to mug technology companies. There was the patent on the “Interactive Web” which a troll named Eolas used to extract $521 million from Microsoft--until a jury in East Texas threw out the patents . There are the four patents Lodsys is using to send…
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Sep 20, 2012 | AskPatents.com: A Stack Exchange To Prevent Bad Patents by alexlmiller | 397 | 78 |
Cited in comments
Linked from 4 Hacker News comments by 4 different people, from Sep 2012 to Dec 2015.
Most recent:
- kalyanganjam · Dec 30, 2015
- TheDong · May 1, 2015
- mbrubeck · Aug 29, 2014
- sarichdavid · Sep 21, 2012
