[Swordmaker]

These patents are SO generic they can not be applicable to anything Apple is doing specifically. Patent 5,708,780 seems to be a description of how the Internet works to navigate to a specific page by translating a named page into a URL address and determine whether it is a secure page or not. Say what???? This is an enforceable patent???? The 6212634 is a 21 year old patent which seems to be about certifying whether a computer is authorized to connect or not. . . using old technology. The other two patents are concerned with using a THIRD PARTY SERVER to determine whether a user is qualified to access a secure page or not or to serve advertising to a specific user. . . but Apple does not use a third party to determine whether anyone can connect to Apple servers. How can this then apply to Apple's methods of permitting a user to connect???? it cannot. All of these patents seem to me to be a Hail Mary pass attempting to get a touchdown ruling from the plaintiff friendly Rocket Docket in East Texas.

[bigbob]

I hate patent trolls, especially Lemelson. As a former boss said, a patent is nothing but a license to sue and be sued.

[Zathras]

The GOP lost the High Tech world in the 90’s when congress refused to address this.
Today it is a plague on American High Tech.

[Swordmaker]

Non-practicing Patent Troll Sovereign is back with four really OLD patents, which they also don't practice or license to anyone, suing Apple claiming that Apple is infringing things like using a patent they claim can interpret a worded address into a URL address. . . say what? Or two others that allow using third party servers to certify that a user is authorized to access data of some kind. . . again, say what? Since when does Apple rely on third party servers to assure their customers are allowed to connect to Apple's stores, which is what Sovereign is alleging? Or using old 21 year old technology that no one else is using to certify that a computer is authorized to connect to a network? These are Hail Mary passes, hoping that the East Texas Rocket Docket will somehow give them a way into the patent infringement end zone for a touchdown. They were slapped down in their suit against NewEgg attempting something similar suing for a patent claiming the rights to online stores a couple of years ago and got their patents invalidated. — PING!

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[Strac6]

A similar matter was recently transferred from EDT to the Southern District of New York, where the judge was an angered the the plaintiff’s actions, he awarded costs to the Def, and in the absence of the plaintiff’s ability to pay, assessed them against the plaintiff’s lawyer.

I no longer practice for fees, but if I did, I would move every case I could to that SDNY judge!