therealdiego

Do a quick search online and you'll see there's a long history around this patent and ongoing litigation with Microsoft, Ebay, Shopzilla, etc. Have it ready for your attorneys and help them get up to speed quickly. Manatt is basically giving people only 2-3 weeks to pay up until they say they'll file the lawsuit, so they're banking on your not having the time to get your stuff together. Like I said, nice people. Welcome to the mafioso world which is patent trolls.

oh, there are likely hundreds, if not thousands. At least, when they first tried this, last year, there appeared to have been a ton of them ...

Oh, and if you've been targeted by them, reach out to me and let me know. I'm hearing that there may have been some mistakes made by this law firm in their process which may expose them to some legal dangers, themselves. If you've been targeted by them, I'd be happy to share what I know, but won't do it in a public forum. Not yet. I have been asked to help gather info that may prove very useful in a push-back, info which you may have in the letters they sent you. (Things are really heating up behind the scenes!)

This particular patent was invalidated and thrown out a few years ago. Kelora, through their lawfirm, Manatt, amended it and brought it back from the dead for round 2. So Manatt is the Palo Alto firm behind this. Robert D. Becker is the attorney willing to put his name on it and grab the mom and pops out there by the goanads (they are targeting the smaller sites who don't have the where-with-all to fight the legal threat, whether there are merits or not). Nice. And patents are supposed to encourage innovation, right? Or maybe they exist so that deep pocketed lawfirms can go after every lean-running online store around and shake them down ...