The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), an American non-profit association of lawyers, technologists and experts defending freedom in the digital world, has recently published a list of the ten so-called "most abusive American software and Internet-related patents" granted by the USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office).
According to the EFF, these patents, chosen in an online competition launched on the Foundation website in April, threaten freedom of expression online, and therefore innovation. The Foundation has thus decided to try to overturn these ten patents by demonstrating that they do not comply with the legal requirement of novelty which every patent has to fulfil, and plans to ask the USPTO to re-examine them.
Note that the European Generic medicines Association (EGA) has recently published a press release with similar arguments against patent abuse in the pharmaceutical sector (please refer to the link indicated below).
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