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

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story imageArs 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?

Nathan Myhrvold Is Vile (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-04-23 20:12 (#15H)

Everything about him makes me ill, from his time at MS to his patent troll scam to his bloated soulless cookbook to his appearance.

Is there any hope that this failure in court is the beginning of the end for his "IV" extortion scam? I'm a pessimist by nature so I doubt it, but at least there's hope.

Patenting a budget alert and personalized web sites... for heaven's sake.
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