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X10 Pays $4.3 million In Damages For Pop-Unders

Posted by Hemos on 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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  1. even stranger... by gmkeegan · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    When the going gets tough, use Johnson's Going Tenderizer

  2. Re:Patents? by mopslik · · 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.