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CSIRO Sues US Carriers Over Wi-Fi Patent
An anonymous reader notes that CSIRO has sued Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile in — wait for it — East Texas District Court. "Australia's peak science body stands to reap more than $1 billion from its lucrative Wi-Fi patent after already netting about $250 million from the world's biggest technology companies, an intellectual property lawyer says. The CSIRO has spent years battling 14 technology giants including Dell, HP, Microsoft, Intel, Nintendo, and Toshiba for royalties and made a major breakthrough in April last year when the companies opted to avoid a jury hearing and settle for an estimated $250 million. Now, the organization is bringing the fight to the top three US mobile carriers in a new suit targeting Verizon Wireless, AT&T, and T-Mobile. It argues they have been selling devices that infringe its patents."
... I think I might actually be rooting for a patent lawsuit to succeed.
And they need the money - they recently lost edu status with Microsoft, so they'll have to pony up more $$$ for software.
They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
Too right that mate, and we don't bloody call 'em shrimp - they're fucking PRAWNS, as in District 9, you insensitive yank clod!
This is an unusual case of patent law, not because of any supposed trolling, but because it's a superb example of how patent law was always meant to be used.
It...it...it can't be!
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV)
[I]f it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, then it must be a duck. Patent trolls love to litigate, so these guys appear to like to litigate...
Ducks breathe. You breathe, therefore you are a duck. Nicely reasoned dude!
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security. --Edmund Burke