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Intellectual Ventures Files Patent Suit Against Motorola Mobility (The Wall Street Journal)

Intellectual Ventures Files Patent Suit Against Motorola Mobility (The Wall Street Journal)

Posted Oct 7, 2011 4:31 UTC (Fri) by slashdot (guest, #22014)
Parent article: Intellectual Ventures Files Patent Suit Against Motorola Mobility (The Wall Street Journal)

I guess suing themselves is the next frontier for patent trolls.


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Intellectual Ventures Files Patent Suit Against Motorola Mobility (The Wall Street Journal)

Posted Oct 7, 2011 6:48 UTC (Fri) by joib (guest, #8541) [Link]

... and then have the tax payers bail them out, like the finance industry? Excellent game plan. :)

Intellectual Ventures Files Patent Suit Against Motorola Mobility (The Wall Street Journal)

Posted Oct 7, 2011 8:50 UTC (Fri) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link]

Damn! I was just about filing a patent for this!
But wait, hasn't the system been changed recently to "first to file"? Wooot! I think I will fill anyway, and sue those bastar...I mean...gentlemen to death!

Intellectual Ventures Files Patent Suit Against Motorola Mobility (The Wall Street Journal)

Posted Oct 7, 2011 13:32 UTC (Fri) by gmaxwell (subscriber, #30048) [Link]

Our new first to file doesn't help you there: Their prior public practice of the technique would preclude your patent.

People, quick to assume the worst of any regulatory change, often make out f2f as worse than it is. At least for us in the open world who constantly make our inventions public shortly after their conception and don't depend on patents its not something that has that much impact.

Intellectual Ventures Files Patent Suit Against Motorola Mobility (The Wall Street Journal)

Posted Oct 25, 2011 10:06 UTC (Tue) by jdv (subscriber, #712) [Link]

Well, Samsung was suing Apple to get an injunction against selling IPads, which contain lots of Samsung chips... That's getting close to suing themselves :)

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