Stupid Patent Of The Month: Storing Files In Folders

Posted by BernardSwiss on Apr 3, 2017 9:35 AM EDT
Techdirt; By Daniel Nazer, EFF
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Our ongoing Reclaim Invention campaign urges universities not to sell patents to trolls. This month's stupid patent provides a good example of why. US Patent No. 8,473,532 (the '532 patent), "Method and apparatus for automatic organization for computer files," began its life with publicly-funded Louisiana Tech University. But in September last year, it was sold to a patent troll. A flurry of lawsuits quickly followed.

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