Firm Seeks To Ban Mobile Companies' Imports To US

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 16, 2009 @01:01PM from the even-silly-patent-claims-are-bigger-in-texas dept.

snydeq writes "Texas-based Saxon Innovations has filed a complaint with the US International Trade Commission to bar six companies — including Research in Motion, Palm, and Nokia — from importing handheld devices into the US. At issue are three patents that Saxon purchased in July 2007; a patent for keypad monitor with keypad activity-based activation; a patent for an apparatus and method for disabling interrupt marks in processors or the like; and a patent for a device and method for interprocessor communication by using mailboxes owned by processor devices. Saxon, with five employees, purchased about 180 US patents formerly owned by Advanced Micro Devices or Legerity in 2007, according to its ITC complaint."

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Re:Litigation is expensive by DerekLyons · 2009-01-16 20:55 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Yes - I have been keeping up. What I am not doing is merely parroting the Party Line and pretending that if I claim "2+2=5" long enough it will become true.
As you yourself say, they offer licenses. They don't sit it without profiting from it. And those that pay for the license profit from it. And presumably the customers profit as well - else they wouldn't buy.
Keep in mind the original thesis: they sit it, which is patently false. And, nobody profits, which is equally patently false.