EFF Takes Aim at Bogus Online Gaming Patent

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is challenging a patent regarding
online gaming.
“The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is
challenging a bogus online gaming patent threatening small
businesses and innovators of multi-player Internet games.
Sheldon F. Goldberg was awarded the illegitimate patent for
the “method and system of playing games on a network,” and
claims to own rights in all online gaming systems that use
tournament-style play, advertising, and have real-time
updates of ladder-rankings in multi-player games. Goldberg
has used this bogus patent to coerce licensing fees from
numerous small businesses, demanding payments that are
excessive yet less than potential litigation.”

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