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Rackspace sued for hosting GitHub

Rackspace sued for hosting GitHub

Posted Sep 18, 2012 22:15 UTC (Tue) by aaron (subscriber, #282)
In reply to: Rackspace sued for hosting GitHub by bersl2
Parent article: Rackspace sued for hosting GitHub

Interesting. So Kinetech went patent-trolling 14 months ago...
http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2011/07/07/patent-holder-see...
...and 2 months later, did a reverse-merger with PersonalWeb, a company with a vaporware product and troll-worthy portfolio of its own. And they just happen to be located in the most troll-friendly district in the USA.
http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2011/09/28/personalweb-melds...

"PersonalWeb’s first consumer product is set to be StudyPods, a social learning platform that enables students to connect, collaborate and share academic knowledge with each other at their own university or colleges worldwide, utilizing technology assets PersonalWeb acquired from natural language search engine developer Topodia."

"Patents included in the Truenames portfolio have already been licensed to numerous companies including Iron Mountain, Skype, Audible Magic and Limewire, and are co-owned in a defined field by Level 3 Communications."

Wonder why they waited almost exactly one year to go trolling?


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