11 posts and columns on patent troll

Jury Deliberates Oracle-Google Trial, the World Waits

in Enterprise on May 1 at 5:12 am PT

The jury in the Oracle-Google trial over Java continues its deliberations today.
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WiLAN Sues Apple, HP, Dell

in News on September 2, 2011 at 8:01 am PT

You’ve got to be kidding: another mobile patent suit?
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Fark Fends Off a Patent Troll

in Media on August 10, 2011 at 10:14 am PT

Good news for people who hate stupid lawsuits, and for those who like entertaining and sorta-NSFW headlines.
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Get ‘em, Boies: Salesforce Countersues Microsoft

in News on June 25, 2010 at 9:20 am PT

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff says Microsoft is a patent troll. Looks like it takes one to know one. On Thursday, the company answered Microsoft’s charges of patent infringement with patent-infringement charges of its own.

Salesforce.com CEO on Microsoft Suit: What’d You Expect From a Patent Troll?

in News on May 25, 2010 at 2:45 pm PT

Microsoft’s patent infringement suit against Salesforce.com has drawn a scathing response from Marc Benioff, the customer relationship management software provider’s mercurial CEO. During a company conference in Singapore, Benioff slagged the software giant for filing the suit, branding it a patent troll.

Confirmed: Intellectual Ventures Owns Smartphone Motion-Control Patent

in News on March 26, 2010 at 12:01 am PT

Patent #7,679,604, the broad motion-control patent I’ve been writing about all week, has passed through a number of hands over the years. First assigned to ArrayComm in 2006, it was subsequently handed over to Durham Logistics, a limited liability company that is itself managed by another obscure Las Vegas LLC called Memscom. But there’s one more company at the end of that oblique line of ownership: “Invention capital outfit” Intellectual Ventures.

Good Thing the iPhone Doesn't Have a Brain Wave Analyzer…

in News on March 24, 2009 at 4:05 pm PT

With its speech synthesizers, brain current-operated controls and solar power source, the device described in Monec Holding’s patent–“electronic device, preferably an electronic book”–would seem to have little in common with Apple’s iPhone. Still, it is a “light-weight” electronic device with a “touch-screen” and “a power source.” And these days, that’s enough file suit over…
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Good Thing the iPhone Doesn’t Have a Brain Wave Analyzer…

in News on March 24, 2009 at 4:05 pm PT

With its speech synthesizers, brain current-operated controls and solar power source, the device described in Monec Holding’s patent–“electronic device, preferably an electronic book”–would seem to have little in common with Apple’s iPhone. Still, it is a “light-weight” electronic device with a “touch-screen” and “a power source.” And these days, that’s enough file suit over…
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The Entire D6 Interview With Intellectual Ventures' Nathan Myhrvold (1 of 3)

in News on September 17, 2008 at 4:42 pm PT

We’re posting all the interviews from the sixth D: All Things Digital conference that took place in late May. Here is a video of an interview Walt Mossberg did with Nathan Myhrvold, Founder and CEO, Intellectual Ventures. In it, Mossberg wrangles with the former Microsoft CTO and research guru over his controversial company, which is assembling a large body of patents and inventions. The Wall Street Journal wrote a piece today about Myhrvold’s efforts today, covering a lot of what he talked about at D6.