It has happened in the automation market, too. Many readers have had to cough up cash where judges just don't want to decide a case on its merits. It's easier for a judge to say, "Just pay them something to make them go away." I'm all for patents--IF they are for real things not just vague ideas AND IF you do something to commercialize them. I was in product development once. People with hairbrained ideas about improvements to our products were a source of pain. Now those people have attorneys and greed.
BlackBerry Service to Continue. The patent holder, NTP, dropped its infringement lawsuit against the device maker, Research In Motion, in exchange for $612.5 million. By IAN AUSTEN. [NYT > Technology]
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