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Not just RackSpace...Not just RackSpace...Posted Sep 18, 2012 18:02 UTC (Tue) by mjw (subscriber, #16740)In reply to: Rackspace sued for hosting GitHub by bersl2 Parent article: Rackspace sued for hosting GitHub
They seem to have been busy...
PersonalWeb Technologies LLC et. al. v. Yahoo! Inc. filed yesterday in Texas Eastern Civil Action No. 6:12-cv-00658
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Not just RackSpace... Posted Sep 18, 2012 18:07 UTC (Tue) by mjw (subscriber, #16740) [Link]
This page has PDFs of the complaints of most of those cases and some others I missed: http://texaslawyer.typepad.com/texas_lawyer_blog/2012/09/...
Not just RackSpace... Posted Sep 18, 2012 18:15 UTC (Tue) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] Wow, that is quite the list. They seem to have gone out of their way to create a natural coalition of the richest companies in the field, all with a common interest in stomping them flat. I wonder if this is going to be a SCO-style clown show?
Not just RackSpace... Posted Sep 18, 2012 18:25 UTC (Tue) by Doogie (guest, #59626) [Link]
I guess the only way anyone in their right mind could possible sue IBM for patent infringement is if they are a non practicing entity. Then again who knows, maybe IBM does have a patent somewhere covering the use of patents to sue other patent holders or something equally asinine.
Not just RackSpace... Posted Sep 18, 2012 20:03 UTC (Tue) by hingo (guest, #14792) [Link] Yep, IBM has indeed patented patent trolling too
Not just RackSpace... Posted Sep 18, 2012 18:33 UTC (Tue) by ejr (subscriber, #51652) [Link]
Oddly enough, they didn't... They left out EMC and all the other high-end de-dupe vendors. I'm left wondering if they've licensed the patents or simply have enough of their own related portfolios to defend in kind.
Not just RackSpace... Posted Sep 18, 2012 22:21 UTC (Tue) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]
Never mind rich. These clowns have arrogance to claim they "invented" all this stuff right to the face of massive companies, some of which employ thousands of programmers. They are essentially saying that all those folks are stupid because they couldn't see their great "inventions" (which are most likely just trivial shit, like all the rest of the software patents).
Amazing...
Not just RackSpace... Posted Sep 19, 2012 6:37 UTC (Wed) by tle@holymonkey.com (guest, #47821) [Link]
Seems that the economies of scale apply also to litigation.
When a company initiates a dozen similar lawsuits, it seems that they hold a competitive advantage over any one of the the dozen defendants.
Not just RackSpace... Posted Sep 19, 2012 9:25 UTC (Wed) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link] When a company initiates a dozen similar lawsuits, it seems that they hold a competitive advantage over any one of the the dozen defendants.But can't the defendants pool resources as well? I seem to recall this has happened in some high-profile patent lawsuits.
Not just RackSpace... Posted Sep 19, 2012 8:04 UTC (Wed) by renox (subscriber, #23785) [Link]
Very good news!
IBM lawyers will destroy them, they should have sued Samsung instead..
Not just RackSpace... Posted Sep 19, 2012 10:15 UTC (Wed) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]
How did they forget Oracle?
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