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Re: Being sued, in East Texas, for using the Google Play Store [video]

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem is that the "patent" (fucking loose term of the word for something that should never have been allowed to be filed) is about the use of the code in question. It's not the App Store that is supposedly infringing, it's the use of the App Store. What a joke.

Doesn't Google use the Play Store to distribute their own apps like Sheets, Docs, Drive etc.

Yes but they are not going to sue Google, that is the problem

Re: Being sued, in East Texas, for using the Google Play Store [video]

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yea they could in multiple ways. They could sue to the troll for a declaratory judgement of invalidity and non infringement. Or they just indemnify their app stor developers for any patent liability caused by using their product.

>Or they just indemnify their app stor developers for any patent liability caused by using their product. What about actual patent violations?

>their product

"Their" in this case being "Google Play" product and any liability arising from the use of thereof.

Re: Being sued, in East Texas, for using the Google Play Store [video]

#203

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem is that the "patent" (fucking loose term of the word for something that should never have been allowed to be filed) is about the use of the code in question. It's not the App Store that is supposedly infringing, it's the use of the App Store. What a joke.

Doesn't Google use the Play Store to distribute their own apps like Sheets, Docs, Drive etc.

Right. But the patent troll doesn't want to go after a large corporation with the resources to defend. Much easier to go after the thousands of individuals / small businesses that can't fund a 5 year court battle.

Re: Being sued, in East Texas, for using the Google Play Store [video]

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A comment from a reddit thread states: The gist behind this case is that the Judge's son owns patent law firm in East Texas where they often represent both sides. This guy doesn't live in East Texas. However, the dad lets these stupid cases into the town to bring business to his son. Really shady. I agree with clavelle's comment. It's not so much the laws, but the system that allows this to occur. Link here: https://…

According to the wikipedia page for the Eastern District of Texas both of the judges he names are retired from the court, one in 2011 and one in 2015. How does he claim in 2016 that these judges are presiding on his case and cases like it?

Re: Being sued, in East Texas, for using the Google Play Store [video]

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I happened to read this article about recusal recently and I don't understand how some of these allegations wouldn't be explicit grounds for recusal, specifically the son being a lawyer with a firm that tries cases in the father's court.

https://popehat.com/2016/06/06/lawsplainer-when-must-federal... Article is in the context of Trump, but you needn't let that turn you off.

Re: Being sued, in East Texas, for using the Google Play Store [video]

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Interestingly, the login button doesn't even work at uniloc.com, and if you look in the source, there's a ton of commented-out paragraphs that say stuff like " The spirit of innovation is alive and well at Uniloc. ".

They also have port 21 open: https://www.shodan.io/host/108.166.176.214
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