<story><title>EFF Patent Project Gets Half-Million-Dollar Boost from Mark Cuban and &apos;Notch&apos;</title><url>https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-patent-project-gets-half-million-dollar-boost-mark-cuban-and-notch</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lolcraft</author><text>Hmmm, that&apos;s a bold move from Notch. I wonder how political activism in the US by a Swedish citizen is going to sit. Personally, I would just have thanked my luck for working in a country with sane patent laws.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>krasin</author><text>Notch was sued by US-based patent troll back in July, 2012: &lt;a href=&quot;http://boingboing.net/2012/07/21/patent-troll-targets-minecraft.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://boingboing.net/2012/07/21/patent-troll-targets-minecr...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Notch just fights back.</text></comment>
<story><title>EFF Patent Project Gets Half-Million-Dollar Boost from Mark Cuban and &apos;Notch&apos;</title><url>https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-patent-project-gets-half-million-dollar-boost-mark-cuban-and-notch</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lolcraft</author><text>Hmmm, that&apos;s a bold move from Notch. I wonder how political activism in the US by a Swedish citizen is going to sit. Personally, I would just have thanked my luck for working in a country with sane patent laws.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gilrain</author><text>The patent laws of the US always seem to reach across borders, so it&apos;s not surprising to see pressure from non-Americans.</text></comment>