Serial Litigant Blue Spike Wins EFF's Stupid Patent Of The Month For September
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The basic idea behind Blue Spike's patents is creating a digital fingerprint (which the patents refer to as an "abstract") of a file that allows it to be compared to other files (e.g. comparing audio files to see if they are the same song). In very general terms, the patents describe creating a "reference generator," an "object locator," a "feature selector," a "comparing device," and a "recorder." You will be amazed to learn that these five elements "may be implemented with software." That task, however, is left for the reader.
Even worse, Blue Spike has refused to define the key term in its patents...
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140930/15464228683/seria...
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