ssavoyPremium
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| Ridiculous Why don't they go after the supplier of the products instead? Hotels, coffee shops and the works buy guest WiFi authentication products from Cisco, etc BECAUSE it wouldn't be worth it to build one themselves. Going after the users instead of the company producing the equipment is kind of ridiculous - they are clearly out there to scoop up as much money as possible. |
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 cdruGo ColtsPremium,MVM
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1 edit | said by ssavoy:they are clearly out there to scoop up as much money as possible. A business company trying to make as much money as possible. News at 11. |
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They won't go after the makers of the products because they can't bully a company like Cisco or Apple. If they tried, they'd be quickly overpowered by those companies' legal teams. So they instead focus on small targets who are more likely to settle to make the lawsuit go away quickly rather than invest a lot of time and money into a legal battle.
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Classifying Innovatio as a "business" is debatable. |
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cdruGo ColtsPremium,MVM
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kudos:7 | said by milrtime83:Classifying Innovatio as a "business" is debatable. Good point. "Company" is probably better. |
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ssavoyPremium
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Dallas, PA Reviews:
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I mean this in the context of going around settling for thousands of $$$ rather than going to Cisco or whoever actually makes the equipment to settle. They can make more money this way; that's why they're a patent troll and not actually a "company" that has legitimate reasons for suing. They know the little guys using the equipment don't have the legal power to fight them. |
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It's like three lawyers in an office being obnoxious. You're still being too generous. |
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said by Jason Levine:They won't go after the makers of the products because they can't bully a company like Cisco or Apple. If they tried, they'd be quickly overpowered by those companies' legal teams. So they instead focus on small targets who are more likely to settle to make the lawsuit go away quickly rather than invest a lot of time and money into a legal battle.
If I recall the original article, Cisco and another vendor have already counter-sued or at least filed to have their patents invalidated.. |
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| Yes, it appears that Cisco and Motorola have taken a legal stand against this patent troll. It means that the troll's strategy of avoiding the big guys and going after the small businesses might have failed. (One can only hope.)
There's really got to be some sort of legal remedy to the "extortion" cases we've seen recently. Whether it be due to copyright or patents, the "we claim you've done X wrong now settle for $2K-$5K or spend tons more defending yourself" shouldn't be allowed to be a business model.
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