It is posiible the Finnish company ETIAM is such a patent troll. Nobody was able- as fat I know- to find out what they really have beyond skills and creative imagination. Peter
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 6:58 AM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://news.yahoo.com/microsoft-ibm-lobbying-seen-killing-key-anti-patent-033009678.html > > > "Patent trolls” is a slang term for patent-holding firms that produce no > real products of their own but instead accumulate large patent portfolios > that they then use to sue other companies for allegedly infringing upon > their intellectual property. With patent suits increasingly clogging up the > United States court system, regulatory bodies such as the International > Trade Commission have tried taking steps in recent months to cut patent > trolls’ ability to file suits within the U.S. Patent trolls are fighting > back, however, and are investing in a big lobbying push to make sure > lawmakers hear their side of the story. > > Well it doesn’t take long for good ideas to die in Washington and The > Washington Post reports that a key part of the proposed legislation has > already been cut due in large part to lobbying from tech giants Microsoft > and IBM. Apparently the two companies were particularly upset by a > provision that would have made it much easier to invalidate low-quality > software patents and they succeeded in getting the House Judiciary > Committee to scrap it from the reform bill. > -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com
