Microsoft Patent Trolls and IBM Against 35 U.S.C. : 101 and for Software Patents, Blackmail | Linux Today

Microsoft Patent Trolls and IBM Against 35 U.S.C. : 101 and for Software Patents, Blackmail

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Roy Schestowitz
Jul 26, 2018

With the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 gaining traction and with Section 101 limiting the scope of patents in United States we now see increased lobbying and trolling by companies on the decline  -companies whose last remaining ‘asset’ is a large pile of software patents

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Roy Schestowitz

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