“Intellect Wireless, a tiny company based in Reston, VA has filed suit against Apple over mobile picture/video messaging technology it claims to have successfully patented years ago,” Robin Wauters reports for TechCrunch.
It was easy to retrieve court documents showing Intellect Wireless is seeking about $10 million in damages from Apple for allegedly infringing on its patent, but it sure was a whole lot harder to track down what this company has effectively produced with the technology it claims to have enriched the planet with,” Wauters reports.
Wauters reports, “In other words: it’s a non-practicing entity, aka patent troll, hard at work in this case.”
Full article here.
They need to put a stop to this nonsense. That’s all I have to say
You mean Intellectless Wireless.
Another parasitical insect. Where’s my high voltage tennis racquet?
I’m suing Apple because I thought up the idea of smaller and faster computers before they did!
Any bets on this suit being filed in East Texas?
Could we get Rick Perry to take that part of Texas and secede? I’d be happy to help…
@Wings2Sky
And im suing you for suing apple cause you stole my idea!!
This patent mallarky befuddles my little brain. If I made the rules the only way you could patent something is if you actually had a working model of what you wanted to patent, not just an idea o paper. Oh, and that would apply to apple as well as the rest and if that upsets some
people, well so be it, but you’ve got to start somewhere. That’s my two pennorth anyhoo.
I’m suing Apple for impairing my ability to work in a productive manner. Due to their stockholders never ending greed, they keep creating products which I desire to read about and purchase thereby inhibiting to concentrate on tasks at hand.
Ten million. Ya that sounds about right. Or – they can just give me $5 off an iPad.
I patented the finger, main tool used by Apple for their iPod/iPhone/iPad. I am suing Apple because they have billions in the bank and I don’t!
Sounds like a fun game. bunch of douche bags sit in an office and thinking. What can I patent we will never do!
My questions is:
have these douche-bags been hiding under a rock?
It has just now occurred to them that there concept patent may have a squillion applications and that Apple just happens to be the biggest one to get publicity from by filing a frivolous law in (as was already mentioned) West Texas?
I am suing the lot of you because I came up with the “idea” of having ideas. Nuf said! (yes, I am that old)
Is this sue Apple season? Is there something in the water making people delusional about their ahem…creations?
The US should have a fast-track way of dealing with this crap. A patent judge looking over the suit and saying Yay or Nay in the same day to git dis shyte right outta the way so de ipad com out witout no delay!!
Golly, this rap stuff is pretty simple.
How would you handle MS? They can come up with demos that seem to work great (see Mojave Experiment), which turn to crap when the working product is in the hands of users.
@Hm…
Nope, it was filed in Illinois. I know, I was shocked too!
Macduff had a good point, though he may have stated it badly. He said: “the only way you could patent something is if you actually had a working model”. The current rules say something about NOT being able to apply for a patent if the product is on the market. Something in between might make sense. You can apply for any patent you think you can get away with, but no patent will be <u>granted</u> until you provide a working model. Which means “you better be close, when you apply, or someone else might grab your idea, apply, develop, and get the patent first.” Of course … “you” don’t have to be the one doing the developing. Some guy at MIT could apply for a patent and sell his work to Intel … he’d get the patent when they developed it. One possibility, anyway.
They’re called ‘submarine patents’ and the people holding them are called ‘parasites’. Most likely this bogus lawsuit will be thrown out of court.