Re:Patent Trolls: Make Them Pay
by DanBC on Tuesday September 18, 2012 @08:11PM
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> Well, for starters, imagine a legal organization with hundreds of millions of dollars in the bank. How many trolls would dare risk going up against them?
Uniloc[1] have gone up against Microsoft in an 8 year case. That's pretty significant.
The Wikipedia entry for patent troll[3] mentions a few companies, and who they went up against. (Techsearch vs Intel; Forgent Networks against 60 companies using JPEG (collecting over $100million from 30 of those companies before prior art made the patents invalid); RIM paid $625million (Canadian or US?) to NTP inc; MercExchange vs Ebay with damages at $30million but some secret deal worked out later.
It feels like these people won't care about the legal fund.
Uniloc[1] have gone up against Microsoft in an 8 year case. That's pretty significant.
The Wikipedia entry for patent troll[3] mentions a few companies, and who they went up against. (Techsearch vs Intel; Forgent Networks against 60 companies using JPEG (collecting over $100million from 30 of those companies before prior art made the patents invalid); RIM paid $625million (Canadian or US?) to NTP inc; MercExchange vs Ebay with damages at $30million but some secret deal worked out later.
It feels like these people won't care about the legal fund.
[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniloc#Patent_lawsuits)
[2] (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-05/microsoft-settles-f...)
[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_trolls)