12.08.2015 - 00:19 [ Electronic Frontier Foundation ]

Brace Yourself: Orthodontics Company‘s Patent Strategy Threatens the Open Internet

In ClearCorrect, the patent owner (a company called Align) is arguing that a digital file containing data to make orthodontics infringes Align’s patents. In an attempt to prevent the file, which is made in Pakistan, from being sent to the U.S., Align went to the International Trade Commission (ITC), an executive agency that, among other things, “adjudicates cases involving imports that allegedly infringe intellectual property rights.”