A lawyer associated with a company that has filed more than 100 lawsuits regarding patents has sued the advocacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) because of a blog post.
The post, part of the “Stupid Patent of the Week” series, pointed out a patent from Eclipse IP for a system that can update delivery information. The suit comes from lawyer and inventor Scott Horstemeyer, who appears to file his patents through Eclipse IP. He named both the EFF as a whole and the post’s author, Daniel Nazer, also a lawyer, as defendants, and called the post “defamatory.”
The EFF is an organization which works on behalf of individuals defending themselves in free speech, copyright and similar cases.
Patent lawyer sues EFF over “Stupid Patent of the Month” post
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has been involved in plenty of litigation, but until now, it’s always been the one filing suit—seeking to create change in areas like free speech, copyright, or government surveillance. Now the EFF finds itself on the other side of the “v.” Scott Horstemeyer, …
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