“A Michigan company, ForeSee Results, has submitted a declaratory judgment lawsuit which could potentially render four Lodsys patents invalid,” iPodNN reports.
“The latter outfit has sent letters to a number of technology companies, asserting a need for patent licenses,” iPodNN reports. “Lodsys made headlines recently by suing some mobile app developers over in-app purchases.”
iPodNN reports, “ForeSee has not been sued, but is rather taking preemptive action on behalf of clients which have received assertion letters.”
Read more in the full article here.
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Lodsys must have a death wish
“The new lawsuit was notably filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois; this is “because Lodsys’ Chief Executive Officer and sole employee resides in, and conducts business from, this Judicial District,” according to ForeSee court documents.
Lodsys has one employee and is in the extortion business. The courts need to kill these parasitic companies.
If indeed it was a one employee business, won’t the lawyers’ fees see to it that his ship would sink even before it left the harbor?
Not if they agreed to present the case on a contingency basis.
Sue now, pay later.
Let them take down google first!
what??
It would be funny if their greed to hold up the mobile industry caused them to lose the fees they were getting.