{"id":6785,"date":"2013-01-08T17:28:34","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T22:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=6785"},"modified":"2013-01-08T17:28:38","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T22:28:38","slug":"patent-trolling-for-fun-and-profit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/08\/patent-trolling-for-fun-and-profit\/","title":{"rendered":"Patent Trolling for Fun and Profit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onefoottsunami.com\/2013\/01\/08\/patent-trolling-for-fun-and-profit\/\">Paul Kafasis<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.onefoottsunami.com\/2013\/01\/08\/patent-trolling-for-fun-and-profit\/\"><p>There are many ridiculous patents out there, but most are used defensively. Apparently, however, someone has patented the idea of scanning a document for emailing and is using it offensively. When patent trolls came calling for license fees on their absurd patents, one small business owner <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2013\/01\/patent-trolls-want-1000-for-using-scanners\/\">chose to fight<\/a>. Good on you, Steve Vicinanza.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Kafasis: There are many ridiculous patents out there, but most are used defensively. Apparently, however, someone has patented the idea of scanning a document for emailing and is using it offensively. When patent trolls came calling for license fees on their absurd patents, one small business owner chose to fight. Good on you, Steve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[209,40],"class_list":["post-6785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-legal","tag-patents"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6786,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6785\/revisions\/6786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}