The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which created its “Stupid Patent of the Month” campaign to highlight flaws in the U.S. patent system, has been sued by a patent attorney and inventor who alleges he was defamed when the organization named one of his patents April’s “Stupid Patent of the Month.”
Scott Horstemeyer, a founding partner of the law firm Thomas Horstemeyer in Atlanta and the inventor behind a litigious nonpracticing entity called Eclipse IP, alleged in a complaint filed May 26 in Superior Court in Atlanta that EFF’s blog post was filled with defamatory statements that damaged him personally and professionally.
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