THE USPTO keeps making it tougher to get software patents; we're reminded of that in light of this trio of "PTAB Reversed Examiner's 101 Rejection" rants of the day [1, 2, 3] (there's more). This is why Watchtroll keeps portraying PTAB as clueless and morally corrupt (as usual). Kluwer Patent Blog, which is another patent maximalists' turf, writes about DSS Tech. v Apple (mentioned by Crouch at the start of this week even though it's about 10 days old). Cheryl Beise summarised it as follows:
Two final decisions of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board—each finding that certain apparatus claims of a wireless communication network owned by DSS Technology Management were invalid as obvious—have been reversed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, because the Board failed to provide a sufficient explanation for its findings, and a more reasoned explanation could not be gleaned from the record.
"I’ve already received actual physical threats too (quite recently), citing an old address of mine."I think it's important to find out if what's being done to me is legal. We are currently exploring legal advice, looking to clarify if it's legal for patent lawyers to just keep intimidating critics like myself. I got some other unpleasant letters from patent trolls (electronically), some of them suggesting that I kill myself. I've already received actual physical threats too (quite recently), citing an old address of mine. This is why we prefer for the address not to be publicly known. Why should my wife too be worried?
The "scam" of Allergan and the Mohawk tribe was the first time I received something by post. How did they get my address? It's not shown publicly anywhere, so my wife and I cannot help but wonder if they misused a department at their firm to access some database and, if so, does that not constitute an actionable violation of US/UK law? I would not mind taking action against them for reasons other than SLAPP. I've grown tired of these bullies and charlatans acting quite so recklessly without any consequences for their actions. Just look what the EPO got away with; it, unlike law firms, enjoys and abuses its immunity. The EPO did SLAPP against me as well (several times).
The patent 'community' or the patent world is an ugly place, intolerant of criticism and trigger-happy with threats. This is, after all, what most of them to for a living. It's their principal 'skill' to just threaten people. ⬆