The Strange History of Apple and FlatWorld

Fnord666 writes "When a company called FlatWorld Interactives LLC filed suit against Apple just over a year ago, it looked like a typical 'patent troll' lawsuit against a tech company, brought by someone who no longer had much of a business beyond lawsuits. Court documents unsealed this week reveal who's behind FlatWorld, and it's anything but typical. FlatWorld is partly owned by the named inventor on the patents, a Philadelphia design professor named Slavko Milekic. But 35 percent of the company has been quietly controlled by an attorney at one of Apple's own go-to law firms, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius. E-mail logs show that the attorney, John McAleese, worked together with his wife and began planning a wide-ranging patent attack against Apple's touch-screen products in January 2007—just days after the iPhone was revealed to the world."

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Nothing here to see move on.

[MouseTheLuckyDog]

McAleese is an environmental lawyer -- nothing to do with Apple -- no conflict.
Also way back when McAleese actually told the law firm of hise involvement with Flatland.

In the end this is just Apple throwing another hissy fit, because really that is what Apple has been about since the Apple III and the Mac.