Paul Allen's First Attempt At Patent Trolling Flops As He Forgets To Say Who Actually Violated What And How
from the it's-the-details-that-count dept
A lot of folks were pretty surprised back in August when Paul Allen jumped into the patent trolling game, using patents from his failed-over-a-decade-ago research firm, Interval Research, to sue Google, Apple, Facebook, eBay and others over some rather basic concepts. In his first attempt at patent trolling, however, it appears that he forgot to read the patent litigation rulebook. The lawsuit has been dismissed for failure to explain what the various companies actually did that was infringing. Of course, this is not the end of the lawsuit, as he's free to file an amended complaint (which he almost certainly will), but it certainly suggests some rather sloppy lawyering, which could be an indication of what's to come.![Hide This Hide this](https://ii.techdirt.com/s/t/i/topclose.png)
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Filed Under: patents, paul allen
Companies: apple, ebay, facebook, google, interval research
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Failure is always an option.
If the plaintiffs had too pay the defendant's legal fees on summary judgments there would be a lot fewer on these lawsuits no matter whether they were due to a weak case or sloppy lawyering.
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Funny
Come to think of it, if you "improved" the trolling process maybe you could patent patent trolling as a business process? Then there could only be one patent troll...
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