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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. so someone tell me again... by ed.han · · Score: 1, Redundant

    do we like patent barratry today, or dislike it?

    ed

  2. Re:even stranger... by Mattcelt · · Score: 2, Redundant

    Um, I don't want to sound like a broken record here, but Opera has a feature to "Open requested pop-ups only", and I'm pretty sure the latest Mozilla has something similar...

    ...so I can say with confidence: Pop-unders? What are those?