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What a bunch of assholes. Federal government really needs to stop enabling these people.

These kind of claims should yield further investigations into the rest of the patents of the companies that have too many patents. Especially if their only source of income is patents. If found that they hold invalid patents to things that have prior "art" or implementations, those specific patents should be revoked.

At the very least the company must show damages to sales or something like that.

The whole patent system in general is a massive drag on innovation and the economy. Sure it's supposed to do the opposite, but that the difference between theory and practice.

The way it is now it's harms technological progress with this sort of nonsense.

Whats worse yet is does GNOME even generate any revenue from Shotwell? If not... this is such a low blow.

From what I remember, they only picked it up once the Yorba Foundation folded.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorba_Foundation

I wish there was an organization of non-patent holders (to reduce risks of retaliation) that does nothing but work to find prior art in patent troll portfolios, invalidating them and destroying their business. There are so many obviously shady patents that these trolls hold onto, it should be pretty easy to get the low hanging fruit.

A non-profit that sues patent trolls for money to fund itself. A reverse troll for patent trolls.

The fee is something like $16K to start either a post-grant or inter partes review, and even if you win you don't get that money back. There's no reward other than being in a more sane industry.

The abstract of a patent means almost nothing.

They're just playing by the rules of the game.

If there are any assholes in this situation, they're the people who set up the patent system and the ones thay defend its existence.

Why do you want to tear up the U.S. constitution?

I want to eliminate the stupid parts. Commerce clause can go, too.

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