A patent troll firm suing manufacturers AND RETAILERS

[thewayne]

Yep. Best Buy and Circuit City are included in the suit for selling violating products.

I really hate the concept of companies that buy patents for the sole purpose of suing people in violation. They have absolutely nothing except attorneys: they don't make things, they don't research new things, they don't invent, they don't contribute, all they do is litigate.

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/11/everyone-even-r.html

Comments

[silveradept]

Yeah. Unless they could somehow prove in some very convoluted way that the retailers knew their vendors were violating patents and still sold their products anyway. Which would be really silly - why should retailers have to do patent research just to be assured they can legally sell products?