Re:Patent Trolls: Make Them Pay
by dredmorbius on Tuesday September 18, 2012 @07:50PM
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One of the entities RS acquired was SGI. Whom I suspect may have had a patent portfolio.
Not sure who got that though. Oh ... crap. Looks like they were retained by Graphics Properties Holdings, who is, you guessed it, a patent troll themselves:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120419/02113518553/sgi-ba...
Oops, Rackspace never acquired SGI. That acquisition was done by a company called Rackable Systems.
Re:Patent Trolls: Make Them Pay
by dredmorbius on Tuesday September 18, 2012 @11:28PM
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Doh! Thanks, I've been making that error for quite some time now.
It never really did make sense to me that Rackspace == SGI, especially since they weren't using the mark at all.
Microsoft bought out a large part of SGI's patent portfolio in the early XBox days. Then they sold the company to Rackable.
Re:Patent Trolls: Make Them Pay
by dredmorbius on Wednesday September 19, 2012 @01:19AM
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A bunch of the OpenGL stuff. Which has since been transferred at least in part to OIN:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/08/microsoft_sgi_patent...
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=pts&hl=en&q=inassi...
The tone of the article -- specifically focusing on patent trolls being problematic, but less focus on the other systemic problems with the patent system -- made me wonder if they were just going after the cases that annoy them.