[Citizen Zed]

How do you like them Apples?

[stylin19a]

take it out of petty cash

[cuban leaf]

I used to work with the legal department of T-Mobile. One of the challenges they had was some companies existed for the sole purpose of reverse engineering other companies’ hardware, finding what functionality was not patented, then patenting it and suing the company for patent infringement.

It can be a lucrative business.

Sounds like what this company does. No products, no employees. They just own patents.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Chump change

[familyop]

Exclusive: China drops leading technology brands for state purchases [Including apple.]
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/25/us-china-tech-exclusive-idUSKBN0LT1B020150225

And no, I didn't post it. Need to do something else for now.

[GeronL]

maybe the punishment for infringing patents should be.... death!!!

/s

[familyop]

Already posted here, though.

Exclusive: China drops leading technology brands for state purchases
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3261437/posts

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Following the verdict, which applied to three of Smartflash’s patents, Apple said it planned to appeal the ruling. “Smartflash makes no products, has no employees, creates no jobs, has no U.S. presence and is exploiting our patent system to seek royalties for technology Apple invented,” the company said in a statement. “We refused to pay off this company for the ideas our employees spent years innovating, and unfortunately we have been left with no choice but to take this fight up through the court system.”

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“The court in Tyler, Texas has a history of ruling against Apple in suits like these. In 2012, a judge ordered the company to pay $368 million to VirnetX Inc. in a patent suit, Reuters reported, though a federal appeals court later ruled that the court had calculated the damages wrong and threw out that amount.”

[VanDeKoik]

I’ll bet they are going to have to fire some more staff they find to be not “gay friendly” enough, so they don’t have to dip into their stash.

[backwoods-engineer]

I hate patent trolls. We laugh because Apple had to pay out a load of cash, but how many small companies do patent trolls ruin every year? I don’t know, but I’ve had my battles with patent trolls. Despicable.

[Liberty Valance]

So, approx 362 million for the patent troll and 177 million for his lawyers. Thats a fun day in court.

[Swordmaker]

The Rocket Docket strikes again. . . Apple hit with $533 Million judgement by a patent troll who claims to have invented the Business model of iTunes and holds seven almost identical patents on buying online content with credit/debit cards which may or may not include DRM, with most of the patents filed in 2010 or later, but claiming a 1999 priority date. Nowhere in these patents does the "inventor" actually describe HOW to DO what he claims to have invented. . . just describes that "if you do this, you could do that, and get this results." They are business model patents! For things that were being done by others for some times before he even had his "idea." SHEESH! — PING!

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