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"The Electronic Frontier Foundation  has started a campaign to get a number of what it regards as bad patents off the books.

"All the most-wanted patents are dangerously overbroad and every single one of the targeted patents is held by an entity that has threatened or brought lawsuits against small businesses, individuals, or nonprofits.

"The EFF has begun to collect prior art for each of these. This is hard evidence that a patent is ‘obvious’ because it is based on a commonly known idea or because the claimed ‘invention’ actually existed before the patent was filed."

Ed Hardy. EFF Attacks Handheld-Related Patents. Brighthand. July 9, 2004.

See Also Electronic Frontier Foundation. The Patent Busting Project.