Federal Circuit Slams Patent Troll

Re:Federal Circuit Slams Patent Troll by awaz on Friday August 05, 2011 @12:18AM (#2848939)

Should we consider this a ray of hope or an exception? Also, as per the article, the case concluded last week. I am surprised that other tech media did not cover this given the buzz around patent trolls these days.

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Re:Federal Circuit Slams Patent Troll by JamesBlair on Friday August 05, 2011 @01:22AM (#2849047)

Seems to be neither:

Indeed, the written description of the patents in question expressly refuted the claim construction of the patentee-plaintiff. As a result, the district court properly found that EonNet pursued objectively baseless infringement claims.

If this set a precedent it wouldn't be against vague patents, or against suing implementations of the obvious, etc.

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Re:Federal Circuit Slams Patent Troll by chc on Friday August 05, 2011 @02:26AM (#2849175)

It sounds potentially about as true of Lodsys' claims as this patent troll's.

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Re:Federal Circuit Slams Patent Troll by Pointsly on Friday August 05, 2011 @02:02AM (#2849130)

Nah - this is a ray of hope! Like the old days when they would take Pirates and hang them at the ports 'Pirates beware'! Hopefully it:

1) Brings light to the situation

2) Discourages this behavior from others in the future

I guess we shall see :)

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