This is just great. As Mike Masnick reports on Techdirt, Mark Cuban is putting his money behind efforts to crack down on patent abuse. I’m becoming a huge fan of Cuban: he stars on ultra-capitalist Shark Tank, one of the best shows on TV, and he also gets that patent law is anti-capialist (see Mark Cuban: Patent law is killing jobs).

Mark Cuban Funds EFF’s New ‘Mark Cuban Chair To Eliminate Stupid Patents’

from the go-julie dept

Some fantastic news from EFFland, where Mark Cuban and Markus ‘Notch’ Persson have agreed togive EFF $250,000 each in order to fund its latest efforts to stop bad patents. This includes naming EFF attorney Julie Samuels “The Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents.” This is a job title that only a few people deserve and, knowing Julie, she’s one of them. Over the years, EFF has done some really great work on patents, but they’ve often seemed like a backburner issue compared to other things — so we’re excited to see what comes next.