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Equally interesting is that one of Lodsys's targets is seeking discovery in Arizona of whether Lodsys is a cat's paw of Intellectual Ventures: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=201108171318536
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For what?
Not checking for prior art when filing the patent application. Sorry, I guess my comment above looked like I was talking about the current litigation.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jul/27/intellectua...
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If this is true, surely the judge will ask: if each of these claims can be invalidated by five separate pieces of prior art, why in the world were the patents granted in the first place?
aren't like 80% of patents invalidated on reexamination? (which is, of course, significantly different than 80% of patents being invalid) the judges are probably pretty used to crappy patents.
Equally interesting is that one of Lodsys's targets is seeking discovery in Arizona of whether Lodsys is a cat's paw of Intellectual Ventures: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=201108171318536
Earlier quoted context omitted.
If this is true, surely the judge will ask: if each of these claims can be invalidated by five separate pieces of prior art, why in the world were the patents granted in the first place?
aren't like 80% of patents invalidated on reexamination? (which is, of course, significantly different than 80% of patents being invalid) the judges are probably pretty used to crappy patents.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
For what?
Not checking for prior art when filing the patent application. Sorry, I guess my comment above looked like I was talking about the current litigation.
Equally interesting is that one of Lodsys's targets is seeking discovery in Arizona of whether Lodsys is a cat's paw of Intellectual Ventures: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=201108171318536
It is sad that you even need to 'seek discovery' to check such things. Why is it even possible to do business anonymously?
Now an evil company would say "Ok, we can invalidate half your portfolio, or you can give us a free license to anything you've patented and we'll look the other way, which will it be?"
Few companies could pull off such a strategy.
Equally interesting is that one of Lodsys's targets is seeking discovery in Arizona of whether Lodsys is a cat's paw of Intellectual Ventures: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=201108171318536
What I do not understand: Google and Apple are both investors to Intellectual Ventures. So the dog is biting its own tail quite horrendously here.
Nothing requires their company to be ideologues against patents.
(except for "Don't be evil")
-- signed, an EFF member