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  1. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jul-2018 22:21:47 EDT Mike Gerwitz Mike Gerwitz
    The EFF helps to defend a language teacher against #patent abuse, which they argue as invalid under Alice:

    https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/07/effs-help-language-teacher-responds-ridiculous-patent-threat

    They further used it as an example to Congress on how disastrous bad patents can be.

    I love seeing stories like this: I support the EFF with membership not only because of the good, important work that the do at a policy and activism level, but also because of the work they do in defending the rights of individuals and small groups that would be unable to do so themselves.
    In conversation Sunday, 08-Jul-2018 22:21:47 EDT from social.mikegerwitz.com permalink

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      With EFF’s Help, Language Teacher Responds to Ridiculous Patent Threat
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      Foreign languages have been taught, and studied, for thousands of years. People who teach languages are the last folks that should be dealing with patent threat letters—but incredibly, that’s exactly what has happened to Mihalis Eleftheriou. Hodder and Stoughton, a large British publisher, has sent...
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