Patent Lawsuits Galore

eldavojohn writes "Guess who owns the patent on the touch-screen keyboard. Not Apple — SP Technologies has filed a suit based on just that. Ars brings out the intriguing detail that the founder of the patent troll company is serving prison time for health-care fraud." Read on for four more patent developments in the day's news.
Today the news broke that Aloft is suing Microsoft and Adobe for deliberately violating the patent entitled 'Network Browser Window with Adjacent Identifier Selector.' Qualcomm had a bad day as the US Trade Representative advised the President not to intervene in the patent beef it is losing against Broadcom. Today we found out Sharp is suing Samsung for an LCD infringement. Ending an eventful day on a note of sanity, a judge today threw out the jury verdict on Alcatel-Lucent vs. Microsoft and Microsoft no longer has to pony up $1.5 billion.

Comments

Re:It's up to you, unless I don't agree

[arashi no garou]

Hey give the judge some credit, he's just following the example that our wonderful president put out there, that even if ~90% of the congress and ~90% of the American public wants something, it's still okay to veto it.

Seriously, have we ever had a president who cared less about what the people who elected him think? It's no wonder the attitude is spilling over into the judicial system.

Re:It's up to you, unless I don't agree

[ConceptJunkie]

If ~90% of Congress wants it, they can easily override a veto. This President has only vetoed bills once or twice ever.

In the case of immigration "reform", the people made their voices heard and the "reform" collapsed like the house of cards it was.

The system isn't completely broken... yet.