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October 27, 2004 1:00 p.m. EDT (12:00 p.m. CDT, 11:00 a.m. MDT, 10:00 a.m. PDT); runs one hour Acacia and Beyond—the Growing Threat of Abusive PatentsSpecial Guest
Jason Schultz is a staff attorney specializing in intellectual property and reverse engineering. Prior to joining the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Schultz worked at the law firm of Fish & Richardson P.C., where he spent most of his time fighting to invalidate software patents and defending open source developers in lawsuits. While at F&R, Schultz coauthored an amicus brief on behalf of the Internet Archive, Prelinger Archives, and Project Gutenberg in support of Eric Eldred's challenge to the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. Prior to F&R, Schultz served as a law clerk to the Honorable D. Lowell Jensen and as a legal intern to the Honorable Ronald M. Whyte, both in the Northern District of California federal court system. During law school, Schultz served as managing editor of the Berkeley Technology Law Journal and helped found the Samuelson Clinic, the first legal clinic in the country to focus on high-tech policy issues and the public interest. Schultz holds undergraduate degrees in Public Policy and Women's Studies from Duke University and maintains a personal blog at lawgeek.net. SummaryYour host, Steve Worona, will be joined by Jason Schultz, and the topic will be "Acacia and Beyond—the Growing Threat of Abusive Patents." Abusive patents and a broken patent system present an ever-increasing threat to the use of technology in higher education. One company, Acacia Research, recently sent out more than 4,000 letters to colleges and universities across the country, threatening them with patent infringement lawsuits over use of streaming media for educational purposes. Others companies appear to be adopting similar tactics and may target higher education in the future. What can higher education do about this problem? Join Jason Schultz, intellectual property counsel at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, for an overview of the Acacia situation and a discussion about how to approach these and other patently offensive threats to the future of learning. Related EDUCAUSE Resources
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