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Patent Troll Strikes Again! Targets: AOL, Digg, Google, and Yahoo!
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| They’re all targets in a lawsuit filed by a Mr Sheldon Goldberg, a
| patent-bearer who’s infamy as a conniving troll stretches back to 2004, when
| he began to go after companies for purportedly infringing on a couple of his
| holdings. His aim: to seek legal (and financial) restitution for all things
| solitaire related. Or most all things, anyway.
|
| Yes, you read it right. Solitaire. The still-phenomenally-popular card game.
| That’s his beef.
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http://mashable.com/2008/01/05/patent-troll-strikes-again-targets-aol-digg-google-and-yahoo/#comment-1094915
Recent:
eBaum's World named in large internet patent lawsuit
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| In the late 1990s, few would have predicted the internet would become the
| giant artery we use today for our commerce, entertainment and daily
| activities. However, back in the late 1990s, there were patents floating
| around for many of the tools we use on the internet…and someone bought them.
|
| Over the last 10 months the patent buyer, , has filed suit against some of
| the largest websites out there: Careerbuilder, Blockdot, CNet, Jabez
| Networks, The Washington Post, The Weather Channel, The New York Times and
| Rochester-based eBaum’s World. Goldberg himself is based on the west coast
| and is known for buying patents on a variety of inventions.
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http://rochesterhomepage.net/content/fulltext/?cid=24731
The Delusions Of Nathan Myhrvold
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| And here Myhrvold is either outright lying or he's ignorant (he can let us
| know which one). First of all no one has ever said that patent litigation is
| threatening to stop all innovation. They've just said that it is slowing the
| pace of innovation. And there's plenty of evidence to support that, despite
| Myhrvold's claim that there's none. James Bessen and Michael Meurer just came
| out with a whole book detailing much of the evidence, and David Levine and
| Michele Boldrin also have a book with even more evidence. Did Myhrvold simply
| not know about these? Or is he lying to PC World?
|
| [...]
|
| I'm sure Myhrvold is a smart guy -- and he may truly believe that he's
| helping inventors and changing the world -- but he's either being purposely
| misleading or he's ignorant when it comes to patents and how they interact
| with the economy.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20080511/1529011081.shtml
Related:
Playing Microsoft Patent Poker
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| This time though, while Ballmer slinks away to try to con … convince people
| that Microsoft Unified Communications somehow offers people more than what
| Cisco's VOIP (voice over IP) been offering customers for years, a patent
| attack finally launches at Linux. Specifically, IP Innovation, a subsidiary
| of Acacia Technologies Group, has filed a patent infringement claim against
| Linux distributors Novell and Red Hat.
|
| So was it just timing, or was it something more? Let's take a look at the
| players.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2201579,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000616
Who is the world's biggest patent troll?
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| In two consecutive days, The Wall Street Journal presented two different
| answers. The first is not surprising: Intellectual Ventures, the brainchild
| of ex-Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold. It's now out "to raise as much as
| $1 billion to help develop and patent inventions, many of them from
| universities in Asia."
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9816163-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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