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World's Largest Patent Troll Fires First Salvo

Posted by kdawson on from the sleeping-under-the-world's-largest-bridge dept.

ChiefMonkeyGrinder writes "Yesterday the biggest software patent troll of all finally woke from its slumbers: Intellectual Ventures filed patent infringement complaints in the US District Court of Delaware against companies in the software security, DRAM and Flash memory, and field-programmable gate array industries. Intellectual Ventures was co-founded by Microsoft's former CTO Nathan Myhrvold, with others from Intel and a Seattle-based law firm." We discussed IV's potential for patent trollery last spring.

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  1. Re:Oh No, They Do Much More Than That! by eldavojohn · · Score: 4, Funny

    ddos the patent office, everyone file hundreds of patents.

    *chuckles*

    Oh Anonymous Coward, not all of life's problems can be solved with a DDOS. Like when my girlfriend left me last week and blocked my phone number -- calling her until her voice mail was full from work and friend's phones did no good.

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  2. Hate to One Up Ya But ... by eldavojohn · · Score: 4, Funny

    She's already been reported to Anonymous as the lead prosecutor in the Assange case. She will feel my love yet.

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