The purpose of Fight The Patent is to bring awareness and activism to Internet-related patents that affect all websites. In addition, this website presents searches for Patent Prior Art.

The website has recently been undergoing the proposed transformation to become a non-profit (501c3) organization called Fight The Patent Foundation to extend the work of this one-man personal crusade to become a new movement in fighting against Patent Abuse.

So many patents that have been approved by the US Patent Office are broad claims that defy understanding how the Patent Office could have approved the application.

Patent Holders are enforcing their government approved monopoly on their patents by requiring companies to pay licensing fees for their patents or to end the use of their patents through litigation. Patents are designed to protect invention and innovation, not to support broad claims where the idea was already in use prior to the patent claim.

A patent can be invalidated by proving that the idea existed before the patent, this is called Prior Art.

This website defines Patent Abuse as when a patent holder uses Patent and Civil Law to sue companies to license their interpretation of what they want their patent to mean that is broader than what the USPTO thought at the time, and that potential prior art is available to invalidate the claims. Many times, these companies do not have any technology themselves, and are merely licensing the patent.

This website aims to present the issues involving patents that affects all websites and more importantly, focus on what we as non-patent-lawyers can do to find Prior Art. Patents claims can be refuted by presenting evidence of existance of the patented idea at least one year prior to the filing. Fight The Patent provides patent prior art information to defendants of litigation at no charge. The effort provided helps companies to Fight The Patent!

FightThePatent.com and FightThisPatent.com are the same website.