“An unusually ambitious patent lawsuit filed late last week, and published Monday, is hoping to profit from the rest of the industry’s work,” Electronista reports.
“Largely unknown NovelPoint Security LLC has sued 35 mostly major companies over two patents for a ‘method for limiting computer access to peripheral devices’ and a ‘network security system allowing access’ based on master tokens,” Electronista reports. “The sweeping nature of the patent includes virtually every major PC and electronics builder, including Acer, Apple, ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Panasonic, Samsung, Sony, and Toshiba. Other broader technology firms like General Dynamics, Motion Computing, and Motorola Solutions are also targets.”
Electronista reports, “NovelPoint is relatively transparent in its motives and doesn’t make any call for a ban, instead simply asking for the court to provide financial rewards in damages.”
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I invented the letter L®, I intend to sue the entire publishing industry and anyone who has ever touched a typewriter.
…this suit includes your kindergarten-aged child practicing her/his letters. I am only interested in financial rewards. Thank you in advance.
incidentally, the balance of the alphabet is in public domain and you’re completely free to use them at your own discretion.
LOL – Sosumi
Australia is not beyond the reach of my attorneys, Dewey, Chetham and Howe, Mr. Downunder.
this is the kind of retarded thing people say about Apple when they are litigating. Derp Derp. Funny. You invented _____ and now you want _____. Keep it to yourself… It’s not clever
Are we still allowed to post “+1” or will Goople sue us?
Caught a typo. The name of the company is not Novelpoint, but Nopoint.
+1 uh oh!
This lawsuit is utter B.S.
All of these damn lawsuits are getting out of hand.
It’s time for someone too put a stop to all this.
actually, this is all very entertaining!!
I certainly do NOT want to see an end to lawsuits. They inform you of all the stupid ways ideas are thought of, things invented, and IP protected.
Who knows. Novelpoint …er…Nopoint may have valid IP. Let an impartial judge decide.
I just realized, the company’s name is “No Point”….now…if that doesn’t make you LOL
But then what will the poor old lawyers do?
The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers. – Henry The Sixth, Part 2 Act 4, scene 2,
“Woe unto you, lawyers! For ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves,” – Jesus of Nazareth
Now you’re just being silly. Jesus said nothing like that at all. I dinctintly remember it was something like:
“Blessed are the cheese-makers…For they shall inherit the earth”
Now bugger off big nose.
Actually it could be interpreted this way..
Jesus said woe to you to the scribes n Pharisees…
These people were sticklers for the letter of the law not the essence of the law.
So when God gave the law He did it for the good of people but Pharasees turned it into a burden for people and a way of claiming importance over them.
Now surely the essence of the patent law is to protect invention and investment. But by using the letter of the law, a troll company can sue and get money off an innovative manufacturer. This has the opposite effect of what was intended..maybe
Lawyers are like other people–fools on the average; but it is easier for an ass to succeed in that trade than any other. – Mark Twain
I don’t think you can make a lawyer honest by an act of legislature. You’ve got to work on his conscience. And his lack of conscience is what makes him a lawyer. – Will Rogers
And that line refers to the fastest way to take over a country, as in a coup.
correct, but it’s still fun to quote.
I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters. – John Keats
the defense rests.
This joke will be thrown out of court and the bogus patent will be ruled invalid. I predict!