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Westwood-based video game maker named in patent infringement suit
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| Turbine Inc. of Westwood, a leading maker of Internet-
| based, multiplayer video games, has been named in a
| patent infringement lawsuit that targets several of the
| worldâs largest online gaming firms.
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| The complaint was filed by Paltalk Holdings Inc. of
| Jericho, N.Y., in the US District Court in Marshall,
| Texas, one of the nationâs most popular venues for
| patent lawsuits. âThe eastern district of Texas is
| considered a plaintiff-friendly jurisdiction,ââ said
| Christopher Donnelly, a partner at Donnelly Conroy &
| Gelhaar LLP in Boston.
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http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2009/09/16/westwoods_turbine_inc_named_in_patent_infringement_lawsuit/
Rick Frenkel takes the stand in Troll Tracker defamation lawsuit
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| Former patent blogger Rick Frenkel took the stand in the
| federal courthouse in Tyler, Texas, on Wednesday, and
| apologized for referring to the Eastern District of
| Texas as a "Banana Republic" in a post he published as
| the "Patent Troll Tracker." But Frenkel insisted his
| blogging about a patent infringement suit against his
| then-employer, Cisco Systems, was not defamatory.
|
| "You know, I think I was outraged over a situation ...
| and I used words that were strong," said Frenkel. "But I
| sure didn't mean to hurt anyone by it." Frenkel
| apologized for using the phrase, and noted that he took
| it off the blog after 24 hours. In October of 2007,
| about 500 people per day were accessing the Troll
| Tracker blog, he added.
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http://thepriorart.typepad.com/the_prior_art/2009/09/rick-frenkel-on-the-stand-in-troll-tracker-defamation-lawsuit.html
Recent:
Careful What You Ask For: China's Patent System Causing Trouble
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| All those foreign nations who kept pushing China to build up its own patent
| system and learn to "respect intellectual property" may soon be regretting
| that, as they're suddenly blocked out of the Chinese market by Chinese firms
| who fast-tracked cheap utility patents themselves with little to no review.
| Be careful what you wish for.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090826/1354186007.shtml
Related:
Beijing ruling shows why foreign companies need a patent strategy for China
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| When France's Schneider Electric faced a patent battle in a Chinese court
| recently it had reason to feel confident. It thought it had a solid prior art
| case for invalidating the patent being used against it by Chinese firm Chint,
| and foreign companies win 95% of patent cases in the Chinese courts.
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http://www.out-law.com//default.aspx?page=10323
Strange patent filed in China: Method to boot Linux OS from mobile harddisk
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| This is not the first time I heard about strange patents filed in China.
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| [...]
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| âThis invention is about the method to boot Linux OS on removable storage
| which is attached to the USB port of PC. It is implemented in a way that
| firstly, setup Linux OS in the removable storage; then enter BIOS of the PC,
| to change the boot sequence to USB-HDD or USB-ZIP first; now boot the system,
| so user can choose the Linux version, and Linux kernel with initrd will be
| loaded by bootloader from the removable storage to PC memory; then boot the
| Linux kernel, initialize system and run tasks; mount filesystem of initrd,
| then switch to root filesystem on the removable storage; detect hardware
| devices, install drivers and configure them automatically; finally, start the
| desktop session, after user has input the username and password, detect
| hardware partitions automatically and mount them.â
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http://www.kernel.sg/blog/2008/01/20/strange-patent-filed-in-china-method-to-boot-linux-os-from-mobile-harddisk/
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