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Intel joins troll-blocking club
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| Intel is diving into a patent pool in hopes of
| avoiding future troll attacks.
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| The chip maker has signed on with RPX, a
| patent aggregation startup whose members pay
| steep annual fees to help shield themselves
| from royalty demands and litigation costs of
| patent trolls.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/17/intel_joins_rpx_35_members/
Patent pools = innovation???
Recent:
Microsoft joins network designed to counter 'patent trolls'
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| Microsoft Corp., a technology giant that
| wins thousands of patents every year, has
| joined RPX Corp., a start-up network aimed
| at aggregating intellectual property to
| shield its members from what are known as
| "patent trolls."
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http://www.marketwatch.com/story/microsoft-joins-group-to-counter-patent-trolls-2010-01-27?reflink=MW_news_stmp
Tech Giants' New Way to Thwart Patent Suits
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| Frustrated by litigation costs, Microsoft,
| Sony, and Nokia are paying third-party
| patent acquirers such as RPX to fend off
| patent lawsuits
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http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/feb2010/tc2010021_382392.htm
Dallas firms specialize in tricky, lucrative terrain of patent law
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| That's what Melsheimer of Fish & Richardson
| PC's Dallas office found in getting a
| $511.6 million verdict against Microsoft
| reversed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for
| the Federal Circuit. Plaintiff Alcatel-
| Lucent initially sought $50 billion in
| damages.
|
| The ruling ended a seven-year odyssey
| featuring seven different cases and three
| jury trials. One case hinged on the value
| of a particular feature of Microsoft's
| Outlook electronic mail program. Melsheimer
| and his team convinced the appeals court
| that the feature wasn't part of Outlook's
| appeal to customers, hence no damages.
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http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/DN-patent_31bus.ART.State.Edition1.3ccb54a.html
Tech Giants' New Plan To Fight Patent Trolls
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| Microsoft has signed up for "patent
| insurance" with a startup called RPX, which
| buys up patents that could be used against
| its clients. Microsoft says this approach
| can save the industry billions of dollars
| by thwarting the industry's controversial
| "patent trolls" and their litigation. But
| how much can a firm like RPX do to prevent
| litigation?
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http://www.newsfactor.com/news/Tech-Giants-Fight-Patent-Trolls/story.xhtml?story_id=0030007745GU
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