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27th September 2013, 06:21 | #1 |
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| Judge Alsup kicks troll in the patents Luckless patent troll Network Protection Sciences is really regretting the day it tried to sue security vendor Fortinet in Texas. The case was booted from Texas to the United States District Court for the Northern District of California where it falls under the remit of district court Judge William Alsup, of Oracle versus Google fame. Alsup is one of the few judges who actually knows something about technology. It looked like Alsup would kick the sorry case out of court, but he did something much worse. As Network World reports, he ordered NPS to essentially teach the jury a course in patent trolling by defending the antics that got the case tossed out of Texas. Firstly, there was the fact that NPS may not have owned the patent it was claiming Fortinet infringed upon until after it filed its lawsuit. NPS founders Rakesh Ramde and Wilfred Lam knew that they did not own the patent and attempted to conceal evidence by being difficult. http://news.techeye.net/business/jud...in-the-patents |
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