Intellectual Ventures' First Patent Case to Reach Judgement Ends With Both Patents Invalidated

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Ars Technica has a writeup detailing Intellectual Ventures' loss in its case against Capitol One. US District Judge Anthony Trenga declared IV's patents "nothing more than the mere manipulation or reorganization of data." Between this outcome and Google's recent success in getting the venue of its battle with Rockstar Consortium changed from East Texas to California, also covered at Ars Technica, dare we hope the tide is turning for patent trolls?

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2014-04-22 06:54
Intellectual Ventures' First Patent Case to Reach Judgement Ends With Both Patents Invalidated
bryan@pipedot.org
Ars Technica has a writeup detailing Intellectual Ventures' loss in its case against Capitol One. US District Judge Anthony Trenga declared IV's patents "nothing more than the mere manipulation or reorganization of data." Between this outcome and Google's recent success in getting the venue of its battle with Rockstar Consortium changed from East Texas to California, also covered at Ars Technica, dare we hope the tide is turning for patent trolls?
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"Inventors" (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-04-22 03:34 (#14X)

One very interesting takeaway from the article is that many of IV's much-touted "inventors" are patent lawyers themselves.