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[ NNSquad ] Meet the patent troll suing everyone over SSL
Meet the patent troll suing everyone over SSL
http://j.mp/UF1xpq (Forbes)
Spangenberg says that TQP acquired Jones' patent from Crain
Communications in 2006, at a time when renowned cryptography guru
Bruce Schneier was advising his firm. But when I reached Schneier for
comment, he told me a very different story: Schneier says he worked
with Michael Jones on a technology related to secure payment systems
in the 1990s. But since Jones' work was acquired by TQP and used for
lawsuits, he's actually consulted to a half-dozen defendants in
Spangenberg's cases, many of whom settled for undisclosed sums rather
than risk an expensive trial. Schneier describes TQP as a "really bad
patent troll" and the intellectual property it's using to cudgel
defendants as a "crappy patent" that ought to be invalidated by prior
art-evidence of previous invention of the same technology.
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--Lauren--
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