"A way to send business e-mails at PC" that got a prize of "monthly foolish patent"

"Remote controlled drink mixer via internet connectionIt will be muddyingPatent · TrollFrom the patent application which is considered to be the objective, the Electronic Frontier Foundation selects the foolish patent every month "Stupid Patent of the Month (monthly most foolish patent)"is. What was elected in February 2016 was "a method and device for presenting relevant individual messages to provide products and services", which became a patent that I do not know what is somewhat just by listening.

Stupid Patent of the Month: Phoenix Licensing Trolls Marketers | Electronic Frontier Foundation
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/02/stupid-patent-month-phoenix-licensing-trolls-marketers

Patent US 8738435 - Method and apparatus for presenting personalized content relating to offered ... - Patent application search
https://www.google.com/patents/US8738435

It is a company called LPL Licensing that applied for the patent "Method and apparatus for presenting relevant individual messages to provide products / services". In essence, the patent insists that "a method of mailing work ideas using a general PC" is "abstract" and "affects a wide range of businesses and equipment" It expresses like.

ByGarfield Anderssen

According to "Figure 1" explaining the "Preferred embodiment of the device", 15 patents are attached to the patent to complement the invention content, and in the processor equipped with "CPU, RAM, storage" , "Display" "keyboard" "mouse and pointing device" "network cable" is connected to the illustration. It is argued that he invented a patent that uses business cards to send business e-mails using a general PC, because he dared to change the setting of a general computer daringly by rewriting it with text and blurring the contents.


At Alice Corporation and CLS Bank's patent trial (Alice trial) held in June 2014, the US Supreme Court ruled that "an abstract idea using a general computer is not approved as a patent" It also had a major impact on subsequent patent trials. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has concluded that "a careful reader will find that LPL Licensing's patent is invalid as well as the Alice trial."

The reason why the patent of LPL Licensing was elected as the monthly most silly patent is the most significant factor "application for a patent that apparently becomes ineffective from recent cases" is selected. Because the application for such a patent is accepted, the Electronic Frontier Foundation stated that "the US Patent Office is asleep and driving," and criticizes the patent trial caused by Patent / Troll as "expensive molow tapping" I will. In addition, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has indicated the need for "leverage" for the patent office and patent trial mechanism to eliminate patents like LPL Licensing.