X10 Pays $4.3 million In Damages For Pop-Unders

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X10 Pays $4.3 million In Damages For Pop-Unders

Posted by Hemos on Wednesday October 22, 2003 @05:32AM from the oh-the-wonders-of-patent dept.

Black Perl writes "The Seattle Times is running an article entitled "California brothers win $4.3 million award against X10." Apparently, pop-unders are "proprietary" technology and a "business model" that X10 stole. I have mixed feelings about this. I love to see X10 get its due for the pop-unders, but proprietary technology it is not." Haha. Patents are funny.

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even stranger... by gmkeegan · 2003-10-22 05:34 · Score: 5, Funny

is that when I went to read the article, I got a classmates.com pop-under. Are they being sued, too?

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Xs by pheared · 2003-10-22 05:34 · Score: 0, Funny

Someone should sue X10 for using an X in their name because Xs are really getting lame.
1. Re:Xs by Mattcelt · 2003-10-22 06:01 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Yeah, I have a couple of X's who are pretty lame too. 'Course, I didn't find that out until I was dating them!
Oh the Irony by tbase · 2003-10-22 05:35 · Score: 3, Funny

I RTFA, closed the window and found what? A Pop-Under ad!

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1. Re:Oh the Irony by jfengel · 2003-10-22 06:19 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  I know a guy who used to have the job of emptying the lavatories from commercial airplanes, and he tells me that certain...accidents get you the rest of the day off work.
  
  But at least he wasn't forced to use IE. My sympathies.
2. Re:Oh the Irony by Kadagan+AU · 2003-10-22 06:45 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  I RTFA
  
  you're new here, aren't you?
  
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Now How Are They Going To Pay For All Of Those... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-22 05:36 · Score: 2, Funny

Swimsuit models? You know, the ones sitting around my pool that I have to monitor 24/7?
Damn my X10 system!!! by ErnstKompressor · 2003-10-22 05:36 · Score: 2, Funny

Damn it to hell...back to 'The Clapper' I guess...

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Re:Eh - To The 9th Circuit Court by Nom+du+Keyboard · 2003-10-22 05:37 · Score: 2, Funny

They'll just appeal.
And to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Watch out now!

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Re:Eh by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-22 05:40 · Score: 2, Funny

...and you KNOW they'll get some serious dirt for the appeal by spying on scantily clad women sunbathing.
GM Keegan, is that you? by Fubar411 · 2003-10-22 05:43 · Score: 1, Funny

See you at the reunion!
Re:Patents? by mopslik · 2003-10-22 05:47 · Score: 5, Funny

What does this have to do with patents? I don't think patents were involved here at all.

I'm patenting the act of not reading the article before posting a headline or comment. I figure 99.9% of Slashdotters will owe me millions.
Hmm.. by DrMorris · 2003-10-22 05:48 · Score: 2, Funny

I just upgraded to X11 and all thos pop-unders are finally gone!
Where I come from pop-unders are a bug by Stunning+Tard · 2003-10-22 05:48 · Score: 2, Funny

I made pop-unders all the time when application programming. We called it a bug. Is that prior art?
Re:I would like to have seen... by ENOENT · 2003-10-22 05:53 · Score: 2, Funny

Say you're playing along with a normal device, and it's at x10, and where do you go from there? Nowhere. But these go to X11!

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I replied to that X10 ad... by gatkinso · 2003-10-22 05:54 · Score: 3, Funny

...and actually got a good deal. Lot's of stuff, neat, for a fair price.

It is my secret shame - responding to a pop under (it was a popup at the time I seem to remember).

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Re:Patents? by MntlChaos · 2003-10-22 05:55 · Score: 3, Funny

I'm patenting the act of not reading the article before posting a headline or comment. I figure 99.9% of Slashdotters will owe me millions.

with your UID there's PLENTY of prior art around
mind-bending by SuperBanana · 2003-10-22 05:58 · Score: 3, Funny

Patents bad...popunders bad...patent stops pop..unders...ehhhhhhhhH!
[Head-explodes]

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Re:Patents? by mopslik · 2003-10-22 05:59 · Score: 3, Funny

with your UID there's PLENTY of prior art around

And when has that stopped the patent office before?
I patented <html><head> by mattbot+5000 · 2003-10-22 06:22 · Score: 2, Funny

You guys owe me a LOT of cash.
Re:I would like to have seen... by jridley · 2003-10-22 07:19 · Score: 2, Funny

X10.com is not really related in any way to the x10 protocol or x10 devices

Well, other than they're the X10 that INVENTED the X10 protocol and MAKES the X10 devices.

x10.com seems to sell webcams mostly to people who hope to catch hot chicks on camera

I'm thinking about suing them; I bought a camera and I haven't cap'd a single bikini chick smiling into it yet! Their ad practically guarantees hot candid action!