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Litigation company sues
http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/voip/aol-voip-sued.asp
VoIP Blog offers this conjecture: This is probably yet another case of patent extortion by someone that probably steals someone else's idea but patents it first.
The domain name used in their press release has only recently been registered.
Slightly related:
Tuesday, June 14, 2005
Research In Motion Ltd. has admitted that a 2½-year-old patent infringement suit is hurting its business and that the litigation puts a cloud of uncertainty over its future.
The creator of the beloved BlackBerry handheld device has, up to now, publicly played down any negative effect on operations from its fight with NTP Inc., the Virginia-based firm that won a judgment against it in August, 2003.
Contois Music Technology last week asked a Federal Court to stop the iPod maker from distributing its iTunes jukebox software and is seeking damages over an alleged patent violation by the iTunes software.
The suit, filed on June 13th in Vermont District Court, alleges that Apple's iTunes software design infringes on Contois' six-year old design patent (US Patent No. 5,864,868) entitled "Computer Control System and User Interface for Media Playing Devices."
