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EFF Busts Bogus Online Testing Patent

Posted by Zonk on from the still-kicking dept.

Panaqqa writes "It's taken some time, but the EFF's Patent Busting Project is making progress. In the latest news, the USPTO has now officially rejected one of the 10 awful patents targeted, making the world safe again for administering tests over the Internet. This joins the reexamination of a patent on automated remote access of a computer over a network and the revocation of a patent on recording live performances to CD as notable successes for the EFF."

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  1. Why the spamblog overload? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why does the "10 awful patents" link go to a spamblog, which itself links to another (wired) spamblog, when the first link in the summary links to the same information?

    Also, one patents 'busted' in what, four years? Cool. Good thing there haven't been any crappy patents since then.