Northeastern University Sues Google Over Patent

kihbord writes to mention that Boston's Northeastern University and Waltham, Mass. based company Jarg have brought suit against Google for apparently infringing on a distributed database system developed by Kenneth Baclawski. "The patent describes a distributed database system that breaks search queries into fragments and distributes them to multiple computers in a network to get faster results. The patent was assigned to Northeastern University, which licensed it exclusively to Jarg, according to the lawsuit, filed last Tuesday with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas."

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We need a solution to the madness

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I've got it! Someone needs to patent 'Patent Trolling' so we can end this sort of madness once and for all! Seriously...this sort of thing has gotten so far out of hand, I'm not sure it *can* be fixed!