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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Microsoft's American Proxy Patent War Continues
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>> | PJ & Company astutely make the connection that behind "IP Innovation
>> | LLC" is a group called Acacia which is staffed by senior Microsoft
>> | agents, including Jonathan Taub, a Microsoft Hero & Key Achiever.
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>> http://fussnotes.typepad.com/plexnex/2007/10/microsofts-prox.html
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> Patent troll companies use inventors for their own nefarious reasons.
>
> Patent troll companies are bad news for patents industry and for
> inventors.
>
> Inventors can object to patent trolling.
>
> Concientious objectors and patent holders can always write to RHAt and Novel
> and explain to them what patents they are violating and to refrain
> from using the patents in question to get a remedy in hours to days.
>
> That does not need anyone's permission. Its good for patenting industry
> to eliminate patent trolls that blacken the name of patents.
Here is some more fuel:
Did Microsoft send in the trolls?
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| Pamela Jones of Groklaw detects the fine hand of Microsoft at work here. Two
| former Microsoft executives, Jonathan Taub and Brad Brunell, joined Acacia in
| the last several months.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1543
Does the Linux Patent Suit Involve Microsoft?
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| Then, it quotes other research that Illinois-based IP Innovation is a
| subsidiary of California-based Acacia Technologies Group, which, in July,
| announced that Jonathan Traub, former Microsoft Director of Strategic
| Alliances for Mobile and Embedded Devices, was joining the company as a vice
| president.
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| Earlier this month, Acacia said that Brad Brunell was coming aboard as senior
| vice preisdent. Brunell is the former manager of intellectual property
| licensing at Microsoft. In fairness, Groklaw did note that Acacia, which is
| in the business of licensing and lawsuits, also has sued Microsoft.
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http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=033001XVYLC6
Novell, Microsoft, and far too many coincidences in the Linux desktop patent
suit
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| Thinking more about all those darned coincidences in the IP Innovation
| lawsuit launched against Red Hat and Novell recently over the Linux desktop,
| I decided to list them out:
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| * One or more former Microsoft licensing execs join Acacia or one or
| its companies;
| * Ballmer makes his most recent statement regarding Red Hat;
| * Almost the same day, Red Hat (and presumbably Novell) receive
| notice of the alleged infringement from IP Innovation (Acacia);
| * Before either company has a chance to consider the letter and
| respond, IP Innovation files its lawsuit in Texas;
| * Novell changes all of its IP indemnification the same day (which it
| has named "Technology Assurance Program" as contrasted with Red Hat's
| Open Source Assurance Program Novell apparently isn't interested in
| assuring open source, just technology ;-);
| * Novell's new program notes a change in the Microsoft/Novell deal
| that covers GPLv3 code distributed by Novell for downstream
| recipients.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9796697-16.html
Got to read some more and digest this. It sounds like SCO 2.0, funded by the
Mafia^tm. Just follow the money and the favour trail.
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