This good news in from John Lewis:
A long-time target of the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Patent Busting Project has finally been destroyed. Back in 1999, Test.com patented for-fee testing over the Internet and has since approached a number of publishers and universities seeking licensing fees. The patent was reexamined last year and now the PTO has officially rejected all of the claims in the patent as “obvious and non-patentable”. Online testing is finally safe for the public domain.
One down….
Michael Feldstein is the founder of e-Literate who currently works as the Senior Program Manager for MindTap at Cengage Learning. For more information, see his profile page.
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One down and so many to go… Electronic Frontier is the unsung hero of our age.
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