Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Prison Telecom Giant Securus Awarded Patent for Billing Inmate's Relatives

Date published: 
December 1, 2015

"“There’s this perverse thing where sometimes the more obvious a thing is, the harder it is to prove it’s been awarded a patent improperly because it’s so obvious that no one would write it down so there’s no documentation,” said EFF staff attorney Daniel Nazer. “No one is going to write in a technical article, ‘hey it might be a good idea to reach out to people to pay for services,’ because that’s so obvious.” Read more » about Prison Telecom Giant Securus Awarded Patent for Billing Inmate's Relatives



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This article by Center for Internet and Society originally appeared on cyberlaw.stanford.edu on December 01, 2015 at 11:00AM

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