{"id":19111,"date":"2013-02-21T00:01:21","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T05:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=19111"},"modified":"2013-02-20T15:43:17","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T20:43:17","slug":"reason-tv-how-patent-trolls-kill-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/02\/21\/reason-tv-how-patent-trolls-kill-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Reason.tv: How Patent Trolls Kill Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sDg-Wh0XA-w\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;My statement to someone that is the victim of a patent troll lawsuit is that you are completely screwed,&#8221; says Austin Meyer, who is himself the target of a so-called &#8220;patent troll&#8221; lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>Meyer is a software developer and aviation enthusiast. His two passions intersected in the &#8217;90s when he created a flight simulator called <em>X-Plane<\/em>, which quickly grew in popularity, outlasting even the once-popular <em>Microsoft Flight Simulator<\/em>. As many software developers do, Meyer made his application available on mobile devices like the iPhone and Android. And this is where he first ran into trouble.<\/p>\n<p>A company called Uniloc has sued Meyer for patent infringement over a patent called, &#8220;System and Method for Preventing Unauthorized Access to Electronic Data.&#8221; When a computer runs a paid application, one way that developers can assure that a customer has actually purchased the application is by coding the application to match a license code with an encrypted database. This is a method that most paid applications on the Android market use. It&#8217;s a method that Meyer argues has been in use since at least the late &#8217;80s. This is the idea that Uniloc claims to own.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;My statement to someone that is the victim of a patent troll lawsuit is that you are completely screwed,&#8221; says Austin Meyer, who is himself the target of a so-called &#8220;patent troll&#8221; lawsuit. Meyer is a software developer and aviation enthusiast. His two passions intersected in the &#8217;90s when he created a flight simulator called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[831,9,13],"tags":[675,174,380,92],"class_list":["post-19111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-law","category-usa","tag-android","tag-innovation","tag-patents","tag-software"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4Yf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19112,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19111\/revisions\/19112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}