{"id":752747,"date":"2013-05-22T20:40:47","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T00:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=582605"},"modified":"2013-05-22T20:40:47","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T00:40:47","slug":"vermont-puts-foot-down-on-patent-troll-that-targeted-charities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/752747","title":{"rendered":"Vermont puts foot down on patent troll that targeted charities"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/22\/vermont-patent-troll-lawsuit\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/691gavel110817133611.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Vermont Patent Troll Lawsuit\" title=\"Vermont Patent Troll Lawsuit\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>Earlier this year <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/01\/02\/patent-troll-office-scanner-suit-279398\/\">we learned about a patent holding firm<\/a> that came up with a novel way of making money by threatening to sue small businesses that allegedly infringed upon its scanner technology patents by using scanners in their offices. Yes, you read that correctly: An entity called \u201cProject Paperless LLC\u201d really has been sending out letters to small and medium-sized businesses demanding licensing fees for using office scanners capable of sending PDFs via email. <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2013\/05\/patent-troll-that-wants-1000-per-worker-gets-sued-by-vermont-a-g\/\"><em>Ars Technica<\/em> has now provided us with an update<\/a> to this story and has found that Project Paperless is just one of roughly 40 shell entities owned by a company called MPHJ Technologies\u00a0that's been sending threatening letters out to small businesses demanding that they pay $1,000 per employee for the right to use office scanners.<br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/22\/vermont-patent-troll-lawsuit\/\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading...<\/em><\/a><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/wLdrFGBa-8c\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year we learned about a patent holding firm that came up with a novel way of making money by threatening to sue small businesses that allegedly infringed upon its scanner technology patents by using scanners in their offices. Yes, you read that correctly: An entity called \u201cProject Paperless LLC\u201d really has been sending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-39P5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}