[Wikimedia-l] Patent claim relating to QRpedia

[David Gerard]

On 8 February 2013 10:57, David Richfield <davidrichfield at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't see this as an actual patent troll: the people in question
> actually use the technology that they patented for self-guided walking
> tours: the tourist calls the number related to the specific site, and
> hears information about it.  I think they were just a bit
> overoptimistic about what was patentable, and/or how broad the
> coverage given by their their patent was.


I think this letter itself, however, is pretty unambiguously an
example of the action of patent trolling.


- d.