Google and Others Sued For Automating Email

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday August 28, 2007 @01:08PM from the promoting-the-progress-of-science-and-the-useful-arts dept.

Dotnaught sends us to InformationWeek for news of the latest lawsuit by Polaris IP, which holds a patent on the idea of responding automatically to emails. The company has no products. It brought suit in the Eastern District in Texas, as many patent trolls do — though the article informs us that that venue has been getting less friendly of late to IP interests, and has actually invalidated some patents. The six companies being sued are AOL, Amazon, Borders, Google, IAC, and Yahoo. All previous suits based on this patent have been settled.

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Re:Others precede it by QuantumG · 2007-08-28 14:41 · Score: 0, Troll

We're on Slashdot. It's an article about patents. 99% of the people who post a reply have never filed a patent in their life. Yes, they're idiots.

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Re:stop settling with patent trolls by dodobh · 2007-08-28 17:42 · Score: 0, Troll

And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we've proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.

-- Kipling

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