Monday, November 30, 2015

Stupid Patent Of The Month: Infamous Prison Telco Patents Asking Third-Parties For Money

Author(s): 
Daniel Nazer
Publication Date: 
November 25, 2015
Publication Type: 
Other Writing

Plenty of businesses rely on third-party payers: parents often pay for college; insurance companies pay most health care bills. Reaching out to potential third-party payers is hardly a new or revolutionary business practice. But someone should tell the Patent Office. Earlier this year, it issued US Patent No. 9,026,468 to Securus Technologies, a company that provides telephone services to prisoners. Read more » about Stupid Patent Of The Month: Infamous Prison Telco Patents Asking Third-Parties For Money



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This article by Daniel Nazer originally appeared on cyberlaw.stanford.edu on November 25, 2015 at 11:00AM

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