[Macworld]

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[leftnotracks]

David vs one Goliath I'll buy. But three Goliath's will cut David into bite sized chunks, eat him, and poop him out.

[Biallystock]

Not quite.
CSIRO from Australia took on Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Dell, Microsoft, Toshiba, Nintendo, Belkin and Netgear who thought they could light finger CSIRO's 802.11 WLAN technology.
They thought wrong and had to cough up big time earlier this year. Microsoft also lost a large case against another single Australian developer over their software registration technology.
So far this year that makes Large Corporations 0 - David 2.

[leftnotracks]

> So far this year that makes Large Corporations 0 - David 2.
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Only if those are the only two.

[Macopotamus]

As of yesterday, they're all among those being sued in Texas Eastern by WIAV Networks, LLC on a different patent too. The lawyers will be as busy as ever.

[Macopotamus]

To put that into context I should also add that Apple are averaging 2-3 lawsuits a month at the moment as either defendant or plaintiff in the U.S. courts.

[Gripper]

Wonderful these folks act like they are the only ones with patents gald to see them get a comeuppance.

[Sigil]

@ leftnotracks---Great Comment!.. I can't stop laughing...

[vfx2k4]

It's getting a little silly. The new business model is acquire a vague, broad patent portfolio from a company that went out of business eons ago. Then sue various big dollar companies for supposedly infringing your idea.
Meanwhile the possibility that they thought of the same obvious concepts themselves because technological advancement is inevitable is never considered, just sue sue sue. What these stories fail to point out is that this gold rush typically ends with the "David" buried under a pile of legal debt.

[Frost7]

Targeting Apple, Nintendo, and Sony?
Why do I get the feeling Microsoft is somewhere behind this.