Overly broad patents threaten innovation, said Public Knowledge...
Overly broad patents threaten innovation, said Public Knowledge in an amicus brief filed with the Supreme Court in the patent case WildTangent v. Ultramercial (http://bit.ly/1dEgzaI). Public Knowledge urged the court to review a decision upholding the patent in that case,…
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which covers a process of displaying paid online content for free in exchange for showing advertising before that content, it said. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit “believed that the patent in this case required ‘intricate and complex computer programming,’ but our amicus brief shows that it can actually be performed with 16 lines of simple computer code,” said Charles Duan, director of Public Knowledge’s Patent Reform Project.