Google Talk Targeted In Patent Lawsuit

Posted by Zonk on Friday December 30, 2005 @04:37AM from the suing-is-such-a-noble-business dept.

JamesAlfaro wrote to mention an Ars Technica story, which goes into the recent filing of a suit against Google Talk. A Delaware corporation claims that Talk infringes on two of its patents. From the article: "You've probably never heard of Rates Technology Inc. (RTI), and that wouldn't be surprising since the company has no products and offers no services. By all appearances, RTI is a company that was set up to collect licensing fees and pursue settlements related to the company's patent portfolio. Gerald J. Weinberger, president of Rates technology Inc., once said that the company was 'an enterprise based on patent licensing,' and that much of its business depended on the courts." Certainly seems like there are a lot of those businesses around nowadays, huh?

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Re:first post! by Surt · 2005-12-30 04:52 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Off by more than 9. Better luck next time!

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Re:Oh, yes another jew. by Pig+Hogger · 2005-12-30 13:24 · Score: 0, Offtopic

There is nothing racist about that. Jews don't have blue skin or square eyes or pink hair. They are not a race, but a religion. Meaning that's all in the head.
Ask any jew if he was born a jew, or he is jewish because his parents programmed him as a jew.
As I said, there is nothing racist in what I had said, but there is plenty of "religionist", though. And it's perfectly allright to discriminate on the basis of religion, because unlike skin colour, it is something that can be changed in a person.