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Originally posted by Oracle Porn
Are you together or....?
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We are separate entities..
IMPA is an association for the Adult Industry that looks after many issues affecting webmasters, patents being one of them.
Fight The Patent Foundation ("FTPF")will be a non-profit (501c3) organization whose charter is to fight against patent abuse cases by petitioning the USPTO to review patent cases in light of prior art, and to assist defendants in litigation with prior art evidence and expert witnesses that extends the work started at FightThePatent.com
FightThePatent.com is my personal crusade to bring awareness and search for prior art. I have provided my prior art finds to IMPA. They are greatly appreciative of my efforts, and I have made contributions to the defendants case with the information that I have provided.
The Defense Fund is a pooling of resources by the defendants to pay for attorney and court expenses. This is where the money needs to go from some of the larger players to help them with the direct costs of fighting the fight.
IMPA and FTPF are indirectly fighting the fight...it's the defendants that are on the frontlines.
IMPA and FTPF are on the same side and have synergies between the two... each has a very different way of addressing the issues, that's what makes them different.
While we are on the same side, we are competing for webmaster's $$$. I am seeking pledges to start FTPF, while IMPA seeks donations to further its efforts that include more than just patent issues.
If the webmaster community doesn't support FTPF, an organization whose charter is to help protect all webmaster's right to do business against the onslaught of patent infringement cases, by the pledge and eventual donation once reaching the pledge goal of $250,000, then the Foundation and the whole altruistic way of getting expert witnesses to 'pay it forward' and help provide prior art and expert testimony, will not started. (how's that for one long sentence).
Fight the Patent!