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Patent Troll: Anyone Using WiFi Infringes; Won't Sue Individuals 'At This Stage'

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Re: Patent Troll: Anyone Using WiFi Infringes; Won't Sue Individuals 'At This Stage'

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Post by pavel_lishin »

> While its initial lawsuits against coffee shops and restaurants did focus on the central corporations, with the hotels, Innovatio appears to be focusing on individual franchisees. Yes, the small businesses who own individual hotels and probably have no idea how to deal with a patent infringement lawsuit -- all because they dared to offer WiFi somewhere in their hotels. To make it "easy" of course, Innovatio's lawyers will let them settle for between $2,300 and $5,000. In almost every case, that's going to be cheaper than hiring a lawyer to just get started dealing with this -- which I'm sure is exactly what Innovatio intends.

Isn't this precisely the sort of thing that can be forwarded to corporate? Someone who owns a Motel 6 would surely expect the corporation to help them with this, no?

Re: Patent Troll: Anyone Using WiFi Infringes; Won't Sue Individuals 'At This Stage'

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Post by colanderman »

pavel_lishin wrote: post #2

> While its initial lawsuits against coffee shops and restaurants did focus on the central corporations, with the hotels, Innovatio appears to be focusing on individual franchisees. Yes, the small businesses who own individual hotels and probably have no idea how to deal with a patent infringement lawsuit -- all because they dared to offer WiFi somewhere in their hotels. To make it "easy" of course, Innovatio's lawye…

Ya but your local B&B can't deal with this. They need to mobilize now and pool together to buy good legal defense.

Re: Patent Troll: Anyone Using WiFi Infringes; Won't Sue Individuals 'At This Stage'

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Post by pavel_lishin »

colanderman wrote: post #7
pavel_lishin wrote: post #2

> While its initial lawsuits against coffee shops and restaurants did focus on the central corporations, with the hotels, Innovatio appears to be focusing on individual franchisees. Yes, the small businesses who own individual hotels and probably have no idea how to deal with a patent infringement lawsuit -- all because they dared to offer WiFi somewhere in their hotels. To make it "easy" of course, Innovatio's lawye…

Ya but your local B&B can't deal with this. They need to mobilize now and pool together to buy good legal defense.

I sort of imagine that the large chains would smack these trolls down pretty hard. Hilton and Marriott and Starbucks aren't exactly mom-and-pop.

Re: Patent Troll: Anyone Using WiFi Infringes; Won't Sue Individuals 'At This Stage'

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Post by steve-howard »

pavel_lishin wrote: post #8
colanderman wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ya but your local B&B can't deal with this. They need to mobilize now and pool together to buy good legal defense.

I sort of imagine that the large chains would smack these trolls down pretty hard. Hilton and Marriott and Starbucks aren't exactly mom-and-pop.

Which is why, I imagine, they'll either stay far, far away from the biggest players (Caribou is several orders of magnitude smaller than Starbucks) and just harass companies too small to take a stand. The system works again!
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