Patent trolls are everywhere. See this from Engadget. It was this same sort of moron who destroyed innovation for years in automation and control. Why innovate when you can leech from someone else's creativity?
What would you do if the US patent office gave you the go-ahead on a
far-reaching, non-specific application filed for a "mobile
entertainment and communication device"? If your answer was that you
would immediately draw up lawsuits against almost every major
electronics manufacturer that even looked at a smartphone funny, you
get a cookie. Yes folks, as impossible as it is to believe, the holders
of the aforementioned patent have just sued Apple, Nokia, RIM, Sprint,
AT&T, HP, Motorola, Helio, HTC, Sony Ericsson, UTStarcomm, and
Samsung... amongst others. So eager was this company to sue, in fact,
that legal papers were filed a day before the patent was granted, and
subsequently had to re-submitted. The real sucker-punch here is that
the patent simply combines a list of prior technologies jumbled into
one product, a practice which has recently been ruled against by the
Supreme Court. Still, we doubt it will stop the holders from trying to
nab a few dollars in settlements, staying the work of real innovators,
and generally making a mockery of our patent system. Bravo!
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