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<p>Does the community wish to make a submission to the commission, and if so, to which aspects of the issue?<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/31/23 09:07, Dave Taht via Bloat wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">just when I thought it was safe to stop worrying about patents<br>
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Date: Wed, May 31, 2023 at 7:03 AM<br>
Subject: Open Source Needs You to Act - Help Fight Proposed Patent Rules<br>
To: <<a href="mailto:dave.taht@gmail.com" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">dave.taht@gmail.com</a>><br>
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<p style="line-height:175%"><span style="color:#444444"><span style="color:#000000">Hi</span> Dave<span style="color:#000000">!</span></span></p>
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<p style="font-size:24px;line-height:125%;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="color:#666666"><strong> Open Source Needs You to Act -
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<span style="color:#666666">Help Fight Proposed Patent Rules</span></p>
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<p style="line-height:300%"><span style="color:#444444"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline">ISSUE</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="line-height:175%"><span style="color:#444444">The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued a set of
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<span style="text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:#e97925;text-decoration:underline">proposed rules</span></span></a>, nearly all of which will make it harder to challenge poor-quality patents. If implemented, these rules will make it harder to defend
open source software (OSS) against bad patents in the hands of patent trolls.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height:300%"><span style="color:#444444"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline">BACKGROUND & IMPACT</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="line-height:175%"><span style="color:#444444">OIN & other open source supporters — IBM, Microsoft & The Linux Foundation — funded Unified Patents’ Open Source Zone in 2019. Since then, this program has challenged dozens of poor-quality, open-source
related patents with excellent success. The newly-proposed USPTO rules will negatively affect the Open Source Zone’s ability to challenge patents, even though many of the rules are apparently<a href="https://cfT5B04.na1.hubspotlinksstarter.com/Ctc/I2+113/cfT5B04/VVN7d58C75qbW2rDHF57vsP7zVhPn1w4_cKf1N65wGTp5knJ3V3Zsc37CgTbLW4rwkT95P5114W7Fk50R6sXBj0W43dQ8V6fR3X6W9cwNjD1Wmp6mW1LnVhP2X7JXNN8p1y4N6w2CwN6sknN32WBRLW88fzK96xpBVKW1tZZ5f8Tkt2LW5jJKdj1VR3D9W353xnN95LnvvW6lzGc-1ybtrYW5MkNsT14svwJW7H5xmK5hLZ9FW8NHK4_7DW5_GW6mXX9964pCX8W7_BSkB6fyqGpW4jHLnB8rWT27VRp2wM27WmlxW2NwQ6Q99-D5vW2qBpg43YS3wLW2g-rZv39gCKfN889GZB_1s89W8bN0nN7Hp9d7Vh3S_18DGslLW8qwXhX6fXRhlW2QBJxq8zYFF7W80tQgH4B3PPcN3hJFWyFkTMtW1053Lp6dpfWFW6F_bHd15cs9CW1P-J256s9m433p1T1" style="color:#444444" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">
<span style="text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:#e97925;text-decoration:underline">outside of the USPTO's authority</span></span></a> and plainly inconsistent with the intentions of the legislators that passed the America Invents Act. They may also
prevent organizations like OIN and others from seeking patent reviews.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height:175%"><span style="color:#444444">If these rules are enacted, patents that slipped through the system and should have never been issued in the first place will:</span></p>
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<li><span style="font-size:7px"></span><span style="font-size:7px"></span><span style="color:#444444">Be increasingly litigated against developers and users of OSS, including businesses that rely on open source</span><br>
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</li><li><span style="color:#444444"><span style="font-size:7px"></span><span style="font-size:7px"></span>Raise the already high cost of patent litigation and cost hundreds-of-millions of dollars, according to an
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</li><li><span style="color:#444444">Impact all open source organizations worldwide that have a developer, supplier or customer in the United States </span><br>
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</li><li><span style="color:#444444">Make business more difficult in the United States, and slow innovation globally</span></li></ul>
<p style="line-height:175%"><span style="color:#444444">As it is critical to OSS that we help stop this proposal, The Linux Foundation is hosting a free webinar entitled "Stopping Patent Trolls: Why Open Source Urgently Needs Your Help, Now!", on June 7, 2023
10:30 AM PDT (GMT - 7). To join the webinar and learn more, please register <span style="color:#e97925">
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<p style="line-height:300%"><span style="color:#444444"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline">ACTION</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="line-height:175%"><span style="color:#444444">Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts, however brief, by
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<span style="text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:#e97925;text-decoration:underline">selecting the green box</span></span></a> titled “<span style="font-weight:bold">Submit a formal comment</span>.” If you want to submit more detailed comments, or
have any questions or concerns about what is at stake, please <span style="color:#e97925">
<a href="mailto:jonathan@unifiedpatents.com" style="color:#e97925" rel="noopener" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">contact Jonathan Stroud</a></span> at Unified Patents.<br>
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<p style="line-height:175%"><span style="color:#444444"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline">DEADLINE</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="line-height:175%"><span style="color:#444444"><strong>Your comments must be received by June 20, 2023</strong>
<strong>11:59 PM EDT (GMT - 4).</strong></span></p>
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