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"Patent Hawk" lawsuit was an inside job, says Microsoft
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| Patent consultant Gary Odom, who blogs and does business as "Patent Hawk,"
| used to help Microsoft defend itself against patent lawsuits. But in August,
| Odom slapped his former client with a patent lawsuit of his own. On his blog,
| Odom took a quick break from denouncing patent reform to announce his new
| project, in an understated post titled "Tool Groups."
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| Odom gamely admitted that Microsoft had been his client for years. "They had
| every opportunity for friendly discussion," he wrote.
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| New documents filed in the case reveal much more about Odom's relationship
| with his client-turned-target. Not only did Gary Odom work for both Microsoft
| and one of its outside law firms over a period of several years—he actually
| signed contracts in which he agreed not to file his own patent or IP
| lawsuits, and agreed to disclose his own patent activity.
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http://thepriorart.typepad.com/the_prior_art/2008/12/gary-odom-sues-microsoft.html
Recent:
Top Microsoft Execs Moonlighting For a Patent Bully
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| "TechFlash reports that Microsoft bigwigs like Craig Mundie and Bill Gates
| (when he still worked there) have been secretly moonlighting at Intellectual
| Ventures (IV), the 'patent extortion fund' run by Bill's pal Nathan Myhrvold.
| A Microsoft spokesman confirmed that its technologists have been sitting in
| on IV-sponsored 'innovation sessions,' where their pearls of wisdom were
| captured and turned into patent applications for Searete, an IV shadow
| corporate entity. And if all goes well, Searete will soon enjoy exclusive
| rights to the fruit of the brainstorming, which includes processes ranging
| from determining and rewarding 'influencers' to treating malaria, HIV, TB,
| hepatitis, smallpox, and cancer."
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http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/11/211259
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