Re:Patent troll gives up, can’t defend “matchmaking” patent ...
by dragonwriter on Friday September 19, 2014 @06:43PM
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> Is that a crime?
It doesn't seem likely to be any crime that I am aware of (though it might be), it's more likely to be a tort, and even if its neither a crime nor a tort it may still be, in the context of bankruptcy, subject to disgorgement as a preference [1].
It doesn't seem likely to be any crime that I am aware of (though it might be), it's more likely to be a tort, and even if its neither a crime nor a tort it may still be, in the context of bankruptcy, subject to disgorgement as a preference [1].
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unfair_preference