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Originally posted by rooster
Then they had their top notch lawyers spend time on sweetening the sweetheart deal instead of fighting.
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I believe they used their top notch 1st Amendment attorneys to tackle this issue, hired on some patent lawyer who made a bad assessment, and based on that, they settled.
Hustler/Vivid could have gotten some bad advice from whatever patent attorney that handled the case.. in not doing a good prior art search....
Anyone who does any kind of google search for patents will find my website.... surely, any attorney who is trying to uncover information about the patent claims would want to talk to people who might have some insight, maybe even show some prior art examples.
I know that Hustler must not have used a well respected IP/Patent firm that the defendants are using, since I provide all defendants with the stuff i find, and they seem to believe that they do have enough credible evidence to invaldiate the claims.
And Spike and all the other defendants who are REALLY spending the hundreds of thousands of dollars must also believe this to be true, otherwise, why would they be stupid enough to waste their money?
So for anyone who wants to take the PR news that the patents must be valid if Hustler/Vivid signed is one that will fall for anything.
Fight The Patent!