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Isn't this maintenance or champerty? | 195 comments | Create New Account
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Corrections Thread Here...
Authored by: lnuss on Saturday, June 01 2013 @ 03:14 PM EDT
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Newspicks Thread Here...
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COMES Thread Here...
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Greed, Dirty Tricks, No Morals...
Authored by: lnuss on Saturday, June 01 2013 @ 03:21 PM EDT
Greed, dirty tricks and no morals pervade more and more of the business
community all the time. The impression is there that the gov is involved, too,
along with the slow workings of our court (I won't say justice) system.

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The wheels of justice grind very slow
Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Saturday, June 01 2013 @ 03:28 PM EDT
We must trust that the evidence is still being collected.
And the continual attacks continue to provide that
evidence. Yes, it is frustrating to watch while they
continue to inflict economic damage.


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You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.

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Microsoft Assigns Six Patents to Patent Troll Vringo -- Is This an Antitrust Issue? ~pj
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 01 2013 @ 04:41 PM EDT
Perhaps Google should agree to the same settlement. Since.
Bing is their biggest competitor (in Ballmers dreams) a
similar settlement is warranted with the proviso that all
the patent pass review by the patent office. It would save
time and legal fees as well as acknowledge the infringement
by Microsoft

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Isn't this maintenance or champerty?
Authored by: egan on Saturday, June 01 2013 @ 05:28 PM EDT

Microsoft has just paid Vringo to sue Google, both by paying $1m to settle an arguably worthless lawsuit and by assigning six patents to it for a five percent cut of any amount it extracts from Google in settlement or damages.

This appears to be maintentance or champerty to me.

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Microsoft Assigns Six Patents to Patent Troll Vringo -- Is This an Antitrust Issue? ~pj
Authored by: IMANAL_TOO on Saturday, June 01 2013 @ 06:38 PM EDT
Strange. The other day, on the 10th Anniversary May 16, I posted a comment named "For history buffs: search engines" trying to give some cred to all search engine developers...

Premonition?

Whatever.

There were a few search engines in the mid-nineties, i.e. before the Priority date Apr 4, 1996. Those mentioned in that link may be a good start.

Think of Lycos, Go, Open Text, WebCrawler, AltaVista etc.

Yahoo and Open Directory weren't even true search engines at that time but only became so later.

There must have been some on-line search engine even before them, like when gopher and veronica were around, i.e. before 1994. My head is too old to remember all the tiny details... Still these links may be a start.



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prior art: How about the veronica search engine - 1992
Authored by: jesse on Saturday, June 01 2013 @ 07:48 PM EDT

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_%28search_engine%29

Did the equivalent functions for gopher clients.

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So the Lycos Patents are Worthless?
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 01 2013 @ 08:10 PM EDT
Pursuant to the Settlement and License Agreement, Microsoft agreed to pay I/P Engine $1 million within fifteen (15) business days, plus five percent (5%) of any amounts Google pays for use of the patents I/P Engine acquired from Lycos.

I would interpret those terms as Vringo believing they had a less than 5% chance of winning against Google. If Vringo thought their patents were any good, they would have held out for a larger percentage from Microsoft, and Microsoft would have paid it.

Even if Vringo's claim for $30 million survives Google's appeal and patent re-examination, that's only at most another $1.5 million. In other words, Microsoft paid $1 million to at most $2.5 million to Vringo to make a lawsuit go away.

Vringo isn't likely to make enough out of this to pay their lawyer's bills.

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