http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5063444.htmlEolas Technologies, a University of California spin-off with one employee, no products, a handful of patents and 100 investors, on Monday prevailed in its $521 million patent-infringement suit against Microsoft. I swear, America is so fucked up thanks to its national pastime of putting greed and "the bottom line" above everything else.
Talk about frivolous lawsuits, too.
I know of another lawsuit where small companies are being targeted because they use pics to show goods that can be bought. I think the site was called www.youmightbenext.com or something similar... the smaller sites are being targeted first because they don't have the lawyers to fight what is a frivolous waste of time that just about anybody could have thought of. :eyes:
What next, somebody will put a patent on shouting as a cheap form of communication?!!