Watchdog Group Says Patent For Online Testing Should Be Invalidated

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit watchdog group, is challenging a patent that covers many kinds of online testing.

The foundation said it had found evidence that a patent owned by a company called Test.com should be invalidated because another company had been selling online-testing software for more than a year before Test.com submitted its patent application. The foundation has asked the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to re-examine the patent, which was granted in

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