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- Tech Companies Indulge in Patent Troll PR
- Verizon, Google, Cisco, Telefon AB, Ericsson, and HP are among a group of high tech companies planning to buy important IP before patent trolls snap them up, as the Wall Street Journal reports. But is this a real concern, or corporate spin? The mass of patent litigation is hardly all...
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Patent Bar Brawl: Lawyers Suing Cisco Subpoena Legal Blogger
- Since March, there's been a legal brouhaha in patent circles, as lawyer Eric Albritton sued a blogger as well as the blogger's former employer, Cisco, for libel. Now the dispute is spilling wider, as the plaintiff has sent a subpoena to a well-known law professor and blogger, Dennis Crouch, who...
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- RPX Claims to Shield Tech Companies From Patent Trolls
- A startup on Tuesday will launch in an attempt to fix the current patent mess and defend against so-called patent trolls. The startupâ€"RPX Corp.â€"is a so-called defensive patent aggregator. RPXâ€"short for Rational Patentâ€"aims to reduce the costs associated with non-practicing entities NPEs. These NPEsâ€"known as patent trolls...
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- Word: Why Microsoft Is Patently In Trouble
- The mind-numbing number of lawsuits filed by so-called patent trolls has inured us to the consequences of patent suits that actually have merit. But despite the fact that i4i filed its suit against Microsoft in a district known to lawyers as "rocket docket" because of the speed and likelihood of...
- Blog posts 2009-08-13
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- Is Microsoft violator or victim in i4i patent dispute?
- By Joe Wilcox, Betanews Perhaps they don't use Microsoft Office at the courthouse in Tyler, Texas? Could there be no computers at all and just Selectra typewriters? I have to wonder following yesterday's injunction barring Microsoft from shipping Word. I'm being snide because Tyler is the reputed "patent troll" capital...
- News items 2009-08-12
- How Apple Can Fight the iPhone Browser Lawsuit
- Erick Schonfeld submits: When a company called EMG Technology filed a patent lawsuit against Apple last week over “the way the iPhone navigates the Internet,” it had the stench of a patent troll. The suit was filed, a month after the patent was issued, in the Eastern District of...
- External links 2008-12-03
- Troll Busters LLC Announces the Patent Office Acceptance of All of the Issues Presented in its Reexamination Brief Against the Original Symyx Technologies Patent
- MERCER ISLAND, Wash. -- Troll Busters LLC of Mercer Island, WA announces the successful submission of a reexamination request to invalidate all 67 claims of Symyx Technologies (Nasdaq: SMMX) and acceptance of all eight SNQ's substantial new questions of patentability to completely invalidate U.S. Patent '356. The '356 Patent, where...
- Research articles 2007-11-09
- Troll Busters LLC Files for Reexamination of United States Patent 5,582,989 Exclusively Licensed to Abbott Laboratories
- MERCER ISLAND, Wash. -- Troll Busters LLC of Mercer Island, WA announces that it has filed yesterday a Reexamination Brief with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for a reexamination of all of the broad multiplex PCR method claims of U.S. Patent 5,582,989 ('989 Patent) entitled "Multiplex Genomic DNA...
- Research articles 2007-12-06
- Microsoft Slayer Speaks!
- Loudon Owen, chairman of collaboration software vendor i4i, which was just awarded an injunction barring Microsoft from selling Word 2003 or Word 2007, told me his company has "no intention of trying to stop Microsoft from selling Word." That's kind of funny, because that would seem to...
- Blog posts 2009-08-12
- Microsoft banned from selling Word
- It sounds like a joke. But, it's real and it's anything but a joke for Microsoft. Judge Leonard Davis, of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, has issued an injunction PDF Link that "prohibits Microsoft from selling or importing to the United States any Microsoft Word...
- News items 2009-08-12
- Google, OpenDocs, Apple, Others Also in Danger from i4i
- As I mentioned last night, as part of a patent infringement suit that was brought by i4i, a federal judge has issued an injunction preventing Microsoft from selling Word. But this isn't an issue just for Microsoft, and the implications could be wide spread, should i4i ultimately prevail. Things are...
- News items 2009-08-13
- Down To Business: Tech Patents Run Amok
- There's a reason so many diverse interests are in agreement. This isn't just a "software industry" problem. Every company that develops software or uses a Web site that implements software processes is a potential target of the trolls. Of course, not every tech patent is for trivial...
- News items 2009-10-09
- Three cheers for Goliath: Microsoft Word and the battle for ideas
- By Carmi Levy, Betanews It's always a kick to watch little David saunter onto the battlefield, load his slingshot and knock off the dominant, arrogant Goliath. We all enjoy rooting for the little guy, and whenever he prevails over the odds-on favorite, we can't help but feel that all is...
- News items 2009-08-13
- How Microsoft Could Win By Losing
- A lot has been made including by me about the suit Microsoft lost to i4i over a patent covering use of XML to create customized templates in Word. Opinions have largely fallen into two camps: those who, like me, believe that i4i is a legitimate software vendor that Microsoft jobbed...
- Blog posts 2009-08-18
- Microsoft Files 'Scattergun' Appeal
- Microsoft filed its motion for a stay pending its appeal of the Federal District Court's decision that it violated i4i's patent on custom XML. The legal brief is fairly short, the longest argument being that Microsoft is likely to prevail on appeal. But the approach it takes...
- Blog posts 2009-08-19
- Blogging Issues: What Companies and Bloggers Face
- As the Patent Troll Tracker libel suit shows, blogging can bring up some intricate legal issues. Bloggers like Dennis Crouch can find themselves facing subpoenas. A few years ago, Apple sued some bloggers that revealed the date of a new product release; the company wanted the source of the information....
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Intellectual Property on Trial
- Sick and tired of “patent troll” lawsuits against banks, the Financial Services Roundtable and several institutional members such as Bank of America are urging a federal court to overturn the patentability of certain business method processes. But the FSRT doesn’t speak for everyone: Goldman Sachs, Accenture and American Express are...
- Research articles 2008-07-01
- Rambus Will Outlive FUD
- Prufrock submits: Tom Shohfi's article, "Rambus's Litigation-Based Business Can't Last" is riddled with so many mistakes as to scarcely be worth a serious refutation, but I will give it a try. Shohfi managed to spin the usual party line with the usual cliches and other worn out accusations which never...
- External links 2009-03-10
- Microsoft Patents Page Scrolling
- Microsoft Patents Page ScrollingRE: Microsoft Patents Page ScrollingMicrosoft is not that naïve to go around asserting such basic patents. It is cheaper to hoard these “obvious†un-defendable patents than to fight these patents in the court. PTO is not going to improve its standards for issuing patents any...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-03
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