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An EFF Initiative To Protect Innovation and Free Expression

Tired of bogus software patents? So are we! To combat these annoying and often dangerous legal weapons, EFF has launched the Patent Busting Project to take down some of worst offenders.

We need your help! Take a look at the Top Ten Most Wanted culprits on our list, and let us know if you have any leads on technology that predates them (called "prior art") that we can use to challenge their validity. Click on a patent to find out more.

	Acacia Research Streaming Media Patent		Clear Channel/Live Nation Live Concert Recording Patent
	Acceris VoIP Patent		Sheldon F. Goldberg Online Gaming Patent
	Ideaflood/Hoshiko Personalized Sub-domain patent		Neomedia Technologies Identifier/Directory Lookup Patent
	Test.com Online Test-Taking Patent		Nintendo Handheld Software Emulation Patent
	Firepond/Polaris Natural Language Processing Patent		Seer Systems Digital Music Encoding Patent