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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.

3 of 288 comments (clear)

  1. Definitely Bad by jetkust · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    All this will do is send a message that worthless patents are both acceptable and profitable.

  2. Re:Xs by DJ+Spencer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, kinda like OS X. Those people suck too...

  3. Re:Xs by pclminion · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Yeah!

    Down with X Windows, MacOS X, LinuX, and UNIX in general!

    Screw the letter X!