Being Mean to Software Patents

Presented at The Circle Of HOPE (2018), July 21, 2018, 9 p.m. (60 minutes).

EFF has a "Stupid Patent of the Month" blog series, which highlights some of the silliest patents and the most destructive patent troll campaigns. It has also gotten EFF sued - twice. People don't like it when you say that their stupid patents are stupid. Fortunately, both times EFF fought back and won. But how is the policy battle going? Did the Supreme Court get rid of software patents in a 2014 decision? Is the USPTO still churning out terrible patents? Will Congress do anything? This talk will revisit some of the greatest hits from the Stupid Patent of the Month series and give you the big picture about the fight against software patents.

Presenters:

• Daniel Nazer
  **Daniel Nazer** (@danielnazer) is a senior staff attorney and the Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He works to keep patent laws - and software patents in particular - from interfering with freedom to code and tinker. Before joining EFF, Daniel was a residential fellow at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society. He has also worked at the ACLU Drug Law Reform Project and in private practice at Keker and Van Nest, LLP.

Links:

• https://xii.hope.net/schedule.html#-being-mean-to-software-patents-
• https://infocon.org/cons/2600/The Circle of HOPE (2018)/The Circle of HOPE (2018) Being Mean to Software Patents.mp4
• https://infocon.org/cons/2600/The Circle of HOPE (2018)/The Circle of HOPE (2018) Being Mean to Software Patents.eng.srt (subtitles)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxHIjwONphI

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• HOPE X (2014) / Can You Patent Software?
• HOPE X (2014) / Hacking the Patent System: The Vulnerabilities That Allow for Bad Patents and How to Stop Them
• Still Hacking Anyway (SHA2017) / Software Patents v3.0: the Unitary Patent Court: Have we silently lost the battle against software patents in Europe?