| nightsurge said: All patent related issues are sued over. Stupid patent whores buy patents (or in this case it was actually his), and then hold out until people buy it or they find another product close enough to sue over. |
I have worked ona lot of patent cases. One issue is that many companies try to dance around patents and create products as close as possible without actually infringing or at least attempt to do so, many of these attempts fail. Another issue is some patents just aren't valid because they are common knowledge in the field and thus becomes unpatentable. Qualcomm and Look up tables are an example of this fallacy. Another common occurance is called double patenting where a company creates another patent for the same thing when the first patent runs out. This can work if there is a new patent that relies on the old patent but if it is just the same thing then it is invalid.
Sony V Immersion was a case I teched on a long long time ago in Oakland Federal. This situation here sounds like a bunch of deals that happened in the back trying to get the best footing for court. Sounds to me like he may have a case.
