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"EFF has prevailed in a years-long effort to make public a series of court
records that show how a notorious patent troll, Uniloc, uses litigation threats
to extracts payments from a variety of businesses.
Uniloc earlier this month complied with a federal district court’s unsealing
order by making public redacted versions of several previously sealed
documents. That ended more than three years’ worth of litigation, including two
appeals, in which EFF sought public access to judicial records in a case
between Uniloc and Apple that was shrouded in secrecy.
The case began in 2018 as an effort to make sense of heavily redacted filings
in the patent infringement case between Uniloc and Apple. It resulted in
greater transparency into how Uniloc coerces businesses into licensing its weak
patents, and shields its activities from public scrutiny by claiming any
information about its licenses amounts to a trade secret.
The great majority of Uniloc’s previously secret court records are now public.
For instance, a list of Uniloc’s trolling victims, which Uniloc sought to keep
entirely under seal, is now more than 80% unredacted. The list of the amounts
those companies paid is now more than 70% unredacted. Several other key
documents—like the contract between Uniloc and a private equity firm that
allowed for this patent trolling expedition in the first place—are entirely
public.
Although the court ruling did not require Uniloc to make all of its previously
secret records public, we are pleased that it rejected Uniloc’s repeated
attempts to get blanket secrecy for licensing information, compelled it to
disclose information that should never have been sealed in the first place, and
affirmed the public’s right to access records filed in federal court."
Via Rixty Dixet.
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
