Hello everyone!
Since we thoroughly discussed about the ways to prevent patent trolls,
I would like to talk about current issues that are going around regarding NPEs.
Recently, Motorola Mobility has lost patent suit to Intellectual Ventures by jury finding that "Motorola infringed a patent describing a way for handheld devices to connect to docking stations," reported Neil McAllister from The Register news article. The two firms have been struggling since 2011 with the US Patent Number 7,120,462, which describes a "Portable computing, communication and entertainment device with central processor carried in a detachable handset."
Motorola has invalidated the patent for obviousness on grounds that the methods and descriptions on the patent were too abstract to deserve protection. However, the jury rejected that claim. Last Thursday, another jury found that Motorola had infringed a patent on file transfers while at the meantime, Motorola had cleared infringement of wireless networking. We can see that Intellectual Ventures are one of patent trolls because its market produces nothing while it is considered as one of top five patent-holding entities. What it actually does is, it licenses its patents to other companies and this is the fourth victory for Intellectual Ventures for patent litigation win.
Hi Tiffany!
ReplyDeleteFirst off, your selection in troll pictures is on point.
Second and anywho, nice summary on the Motorola case. I totally agree with your perspective on Intellectual Ventures - they are such a huge patent troll but they have so many resources it makes it hard to challenge. Small suggestion - maybe next time you could try using subheadings to break up the main text bodies. It helps sometimes with reading flow. But just a minor point. good job!