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To: Swordmaker

Have any of their lawsuits been thrown out?

If not, they may have a case.


4 posted on 12/06/2009 1:54:59 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
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To: Erik Latranyi; Swordmaker
You were saying ...

Have any of their lawsuits been thrown out?

Patent trolls should be thrown out... LOL

Let inventions/patented items be protected when developed and used. Time to update and improve our patent system...

5 posted on 12/06/2009 2:15:15 AM PST by Star Traveler (The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a Zionist and Jerusalem is the apple of His eye.)
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To: Erik Latranyi
If not, they may have a case.

They have a non-technical, "idea" patent, with which they never produced any products... it should never have been issued. It lay moribund from 1992 until 2003, when after it was sold to two lawyers for less than $100,000, it was used to sue Sony, who actually invented a digital camera using actual technology they actually created, to extract $24 million dollars of their profits... then two years later to sue Canon to extract $34 million from them.

Apple was also one of the first makers of digital computer cameras contemporaneous with the so called invention of this idea... and the "inventors" did not sue them then 17 years ago... they may have lost the right to sue Apple due to the legal concept of laches... by waiting too long.

6 posted on 12/06/2009 3:05:44 AM PST by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE isAAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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