Those are from a call to action campaign from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

https://act.eff.org/action/save-alice-tell-the-patent-office...

Is there any point to these campaigns? It's not a vote, right? The idea is that they're supposed to collect diverse arguments and get as many informed perspectives as they can. "Lots of people pushed a button to post this comment" is not going to be a very powerful perspective.

Sheer volume is worth something. Perhaps only a little after the fiasco at the FCC with the forged net neutrality comments.

Isn't the FCC process actually explicit about the fact that number-of-votes isn't a factor? I don't know where I read this, but I feel like I read something about the regulatory feedback process and thought to myself "this is exactly how AfD at Wikipedia work" (where voting is also useless and actually counterproductive).

If volume isn't expressly ruled out as a factor it probably ought to be.

For the unfamiliar, AfD is "Articles for Deletion"

Copy&Paste 'comments' on something like this just get binned anyway, same as when the FCC opened comments on the net neutrality issue.

Now up to 10 comments and still they are all identical.

Yep. Looks like a coordinated campaign... maybe involving one of those forms you click on that dumps boilerplate into an email so the commentator can be as passive as possible.

Looks like it may have been from the EFF based on this comment:

https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/documents/eligibli...

Yep... here is it...

https://act.eff.org/action/save-alice-tell-the-patent-office...