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Google, Yahoo, Others Sued Over Solitaire Patent

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the patent-trolls dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Back in 2004, Slashdot posted about computer solitaire being patented. It was a ridiculous patent and made it onto the EFF's list of worst patents. However, not much had been heard about that patent until now. It turns out that the patent holder, Sheldon Goldberg, is now using that patent to sue a bunch of different online publications, including Digg, eBaum's World, the NY Times, Cnet and the Washington Post. He's also suing Google, Yahoo and AOL (why not?)."

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  1. More Info. by headkase · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Techdirt has more: details. To add to the conversation, it also asserts a "networked gaming system" but again that's pure bollocks as Quake and Doom before it obviously provide prior art even for that!

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    Shh.
  2. I Hereby Patent... by ehaggis · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ...Lawsuits for patent infringement.

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    One ring to bind them - should probably have more fiber and less rings in their diet.