patent trolls
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Apple Ordered To Pay Patent Troll VirnetX $648.3 Million In iMessage, FaceTime And VPN Lawsuit
A federal jury in Texas has ordered Apple to pay out $US502.6 million ($648.3 million) to VirtnetX Holding Corp., the kind of company often referred to as a patent troll, in the eighth year of contentious legal battles between the two companies, Bloomberg reported today.
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Google Attempts To Fight Patent Trolls With A Pretty Dubious Strategy
Google’s legal team has announced that it will be buying as many patents as possible in order to “remove friction from the patent market” and defeat patent trolls, companies that buy patents just to sue people on bogus charges of infringement. But there’s a big problem with this strategy.
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How The ‘Shopping Cart’ Patent Almost Ruined Online Shopping
Online electronics retailer Newegg just took out one of the biggest patent trolls on the web. A troll so pervasive it threatened to put out a mafioso lawsuit-insurance tax on basically every online retailer on the internet. Here’s how it happened, as told in a great writeup over at Ars Technica.