Massive patent troll suit seeks to tax USB hubs at Wal-Mart, Amazon, Best Buy
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/09/nest-ceo-and-ex-apple-star-are-inventors-in-patent-troll-suit-over-usb/ The '811 patent describes a system in which "intelligent daisy-chainable serial" bus connections create an "efficient unambiguous method" of linking together various peripherals, while being connected to a base station. It sounds and looks something like what a bunch of stuff connected together with USB cords and ports might look like, but the term Universal Serial Bus (USB) doesn't appear anywhere in the patent. - - - Can we just ship these patent trolls to Saudi Arabia or something? --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
