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by watermoose
3561 days ago
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I'm glad that they are doing this to raise awareness about the problem, and it seems like a good idea to request prior art on this page. And, it looks to have a great team behind it:
https://unpatent.co/about So, I'm curious, is Lee Cheng going to be the one going after Marc and his group, and is the $20k just to try to help pay his court expenses? Because, it seems like it's going to be a lot more expensive than that. I'm asking because there isn't much information about how the money will be used on the campaign page, and I think more would give if this were clearer. Good luck to Unpatent in this! I think this is an inventive way to help start to solve this problem. Something else that people could do is write to their representatives about it. These patent problems are solvable with law that penalizes organizations that try to blackmail organizations with patents that are overly broad. http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/ http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_c... |
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We spend the crowdfunded money on the ex parte reexam PTO fees + lawyer fees (for preparing the filing) + rewarding the prior art searchers. As we're doing an ex parte, it's pretty cheap compared to an inter partes. The IPR one would be >$100k, while ex parte's minimum costs are about $16k. Ex parte has less success probabilities than an inter parte, but the fact that it's so cheap helps scaling the process so we can get rid of stupid patents at a good pace :)