Extortion Made Legal
Via James Joyner, NTP’s abuse of patents at Research In Motion’s expense has been settled, well, at RIM’s expense, to the tune of $612.5 million, keeping the world safe for BlackBerry users.
This strikes me as the Kelo of patent cases, though apparently there are already rules being implemented against submarine patents; ones that surface after being hidden long enough to be infringed unknowingly. The whole concept of infringement on a patent nobody ever made an effort to use starts to look silly.
Posted by on 03/03 at 09:37 PM
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