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Kodak Says Intellectual Ventures Behind Patent Lawsuit Filed By Shell Company
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| It seems that at least one company sued over
| such a patent is hitting back. Joe Mullin
| points us to the Legal Pad blog, which notes
| that Kodak, who has been sued for patent
| infringement by a shell company (PFI) being
| represented by Ray Niro (famous for, among
| other things, being the first person labeled
| a "patent troll," as well as suing a bunch of
| companies he didn't like with a bogus patent
| -- finally rejected for good, recently --
| that he claimed covered any website that used
| a JPEG image), doesn't believe that it's
| really the shell company that's behind this
| lawsuit. It's demanding that Intellectual
| Ventures take part...
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100310/0302518496.shtml
Will Patent Holder IV Show Its Face to Kodak?
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| Kodak is trying to draw large patent hoarder
| Intellectual Ventures into court.
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| With its 30,000 patents and opaque veil of
| mystery, IV has shied away from the courts,
| likely because an allergy to discovery. But
| with its new money making scheme of selling
| patents to trolls who then file lawsuits
| (free reg. req.), you knew that IV would
| eventually end up in a courtroom.
|
| Here are the basics on the Kodak case:
|
| 1. IV sold patent to shell company named
| Picture Frame Innovations.
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| 2. Picture Frame, represented by Ray âthe
| original patent trollâ Niro, sued Kodak for
| patent infringement.
|
| 3. IV co-founder Peter Detkin told me last
| year that IV is now cutting deals where it
| sells patents and takes a cut of any money
| made by filing lawsuits (free reg. req.). So
| it seemed like IV might have struck such a
| deal with Picture Frame and Niro.
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http://legalpad.typepad.com/my_weblog/2010/03/will-patent-holder-iv-show-its-face-to-kodak.html
Recent:
Facebook Huddles with Patent Vampire
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| After leaving Microsoft, Myhrvold went into the patent business. His
| Intellectual Ventures works like this: Buy up patents, then use them to
| bludgeon large tech companies into forking over fees or making investments in
| Intellectual Ventures.
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| In the course of his short career, Zuckerberg, as a tipster reminded us, has
| accumulated a nice array of patents. They're related, as you might guess, to
| social networking and digital media. Could he use them against his rivals via
| Myhrvold, raising some money for Facebook in the process?
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http://gawker.com/5313640/facebook-huddles-with-patent-vampire
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