{"id":8000,"date":"2013-10-09T12:26:01","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T17:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=8000"},"modified":"2014-04-22T13:23:03","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T17:23:03","slug":"intellectual-ventures-sues-over-cidcvv-patent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/09\/intellectual-ventures-sues-over-cidcvv-patent\/","title":{"rendered":"Intellectual Ventures Sues Over CID\/CVV Patent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20131007\/02403824776\/intellectual-ventures-evil-knows-no-bounds-buys-patent-amex-donated-public-good-starts-suing.shtml\">Mike Masnick<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/techdirt\/status\/387647356281552896\">John Siracusa<\/a>):<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20131007\/02403824776\/intellectual-ventures-evil-knows-no-bounds-buys-patent-amex-donated-public-good-starts-suing.shtml\"><p>AmEx patented those little numbers on your credit card, and then for the good of the industry and consumer protection <b>donated<\/b> the patent to a non-profit, who <b>promised<\/b> not to enforce the patent against banks&#8230; and then proceeded to sell the patent to Intellectual Ventures who is now suing banks over it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n<p>Update (2014-04-22): <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2014\/04\/for-worlds-biggest-troll-first-patent-case-ends-up-in-tatters\/\">Joe Mullin<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2014\/04\/for-worlds-biggest-troll-first-patent-case-ends-up-in-tatters\/\"><p>Three other IV patents were dropped from the case at earlier stages of the litigation. One of them, No. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/patents\/US6182894\">6,182,894<\/a>, originated with research at American Express. IV lawyers said it covered the use of the three-digit CVV security codes on the back of credit cards, but in January they submitted a motion in which they \u201crecognize that the claims, as written, are at risk of being found invalid,\u201d and withdrew the patent.<\/p>\r\n<p>Of course, some commentators <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20131007\/02403824776\/intellectual-ventures-evil-knows-no-bounds-buys-patent-amex-donated-public-good-starts-suing.shtml\">wondered<\/a> how a three-digit security code on the back of a credit card could be purchased at all. Perhaps in recognition of how terrible it would look suing over such a patent, AMEX donated the patent to a non-profit, the <a href=\"http:\/\/cmafound.org\/\">Consumer and Merchant Awareness Foundation<\/a> (CMAF). The charity promised not to use the patent to sue \u201cissuers, acquirers, merchants or consumers.\u201d&nbsp;In 2009, patent office records show CMAF <a href=\"http:\/\/assignments.uspto.gov\/assignments\/q?db=pat&amp;pat=6182894\">sold the patent<\/a> to Intellectual Ventures.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Masnick (via John Siracusa): AmEx patented those little numbers on your credit card, and then for the good of the industry and consumer protection donated the patent to a non-profit, who promised not to enforce the patent against banks&#8230; and then proceeded to sell the patent to Intellectual Ventures who is now suing banks [&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":[41,40],"class_list":["post-8000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-lawsuit","tag-patents"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8000","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=8000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8726,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8000\/revisions\/8726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}