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Stupid Patent of the Month: Infamous Prison Telco Patents Asking Third-Parties for Money
Nazer, Daniel http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/11/stupid-patent-month-infamous-prison-telco-patents-asking-third-parties-money
Publisher: Eletronic Frontier Foundation
Date Written: 24/11/2015
Year Published: 2015
Resource Type: Article
Plenty of businesses rely on third-party payers: parents often pay for college; insurance companies pay most health care bills. Reaching out to potential third-party payers is hardly a new or revolutionary business practice. But someone should tell the Patent Office. Earlier this year, it issued US Patent No. 9,026,468 to Securus Technologies, a company that provides telephone services to prisoners. The patent covers a method of "proactively establishing a third-party payment account." In other words, Securus patented the idea of finding someone to pay a bill.
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