Patent Trolls: Make Them Pay

Re:Patent Trolls: Make Them Pay by atomical on Tuesday September 18, 2012 @06:41PM (#4540919)

It seems like PersonalWeb is trying to develop software...

http://www.personalweb.com/

Interesting that their CEO was involved early on in P2P.

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Re:Patent Trolls: Make Them Pay by amitparikh on Tuesday September 18, 2012 @06:45PM (#4540930)

Does it, though?

First red flag for me is that they are based in "East Texas": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_fo...

On their "How we do it" page, they mention some Natural Language Processing software that they're developing, but primarily highlight their "valuable" patent portfolio.

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Re:Patent Trolls: Make Them Pay by learc83 on Tuesday September 18, 2012 @07:24PM (#4541123)

Any company that lists that they own "some really amazing patents" in bold on their home page can't possibly be real.

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Re:Patent Trolls: Make Them Pay by udpheaders on Tuesday September 18, 2012 @08:54PM (#4541452)

But the inventors don't work for them and they didn't file these patents nor were they assignees. They acquired the patents from someone else for a price.

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