The Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents

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Submission + - The Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents (eff.org)

Submitted by l2718 on Wednesday December 19, 2012 @05:03PM

l2718 writes: The Electronic Frontiers Foundation announced today a large donation by Mark Cuban and Markus Persson to the EFF Patent Project. Notably, part of Cuban's donation is for the creation of the "Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents" (the first holder is current staff attorney Julie Samuels). Time will tell if the new title will help her advocacy work.

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