May 17, 2004 : EFF Receives Funding for Patent Fight

📅 May 17, 2004 - According to reports, The Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org), an advocate of civil liberties on the Internet, says it will intensify its efforts to have the US patent and trademark office re-examine some patents it says are overly broad and restrict rights to the use of publicly available knowledge.

Jason Schultz, staff attorney for EFF, says a number of patents deserve to be re-examined, including one-click online shopping, online shopping carts, the hyperlink, internationalizing domain names, pop-up windows, targeted banner ads, paying with credit cards online, framed browsing, affiliate linking and video streaming.
In support of its efforts, the EFF recently received a $50,000 grant from The Parker Family Foundation, an organization involved in battles over digital media technologies.
The news comes as several organizations are preparing to square off in a fight over digital media technology patents. One of the most high-profile cases involves several adult Web sites in a fight with Acacia Media Technologies Corporation, a company that owns patents on the process of transmitting compressed audio or video. Acacia has attempted to collect licensing fees from several adult companies who use the technology.

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