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When Bad Patents Hurt Good People: Patent Threat Shuts Down Flight Planning Site
The Electronic Frontier Foundation published an article on the Flightprep patent abuses. The EFF runs a [https://w2.eff.org/patent/wp.php patent busting project] where they fund legal defenses against bogus patents. Huge organization with tons of cash...you do not want these guys against you. (www.eff.org) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
I pray this flight prep goes away very fast. I"ve never bought anything from them and never will, also nobody in my pilot circle will either. I will be writing a letter to the owner of flight prep who is a pilot and who's home address on landings.com under the pilot search i found. I will be letting him know how dissapointed i am with this flightprep company. His dirty business practice will stop I hope.
I guess I am still at a loss as to what the details are of the patent violation that Flightprep is claiming. None the less, this is not positive and in no way will help anything except fatten a pocket. (Appologies for overuse of previous statement) Hope also that EFF can do something to stop this.
Looks as tho the freebee users are going to have to pay a little to get services.
@murrellp: highly doubt it. Flightprep isn't really looking to be around long in my book. They're charging for a service others are able to offer for free. Sure they might be able to shut some sites down, but all in all, in the end, flightpreps doors will shut as no one buys their product.
It's good time to shut FlightPrep down
I subscribed to FP's product not too long ago and hated it from day one. After this patent silliness, I downloaded their latest version and I can say that, in my opinion, it is the worst excuse for a planner that could be possible. If you haven't tried it... DON'T... it is less than worthless. If they built a good product, they wouldn't need a patent for protection.
Now that the EFF is involved, something definitely will be happening, whether it being FlightPrep being taken to court over their actions, or the USPTO reconsidering their patent or removing it outright.