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Lodsys Unloads 078 Patent Lawsuit on Adult Companies, Others

MARSHALL, Texas?The patent is referred to simply as the '078 Patent, also called "Methods and systems for gathering information from units of a commodity across a network." Lodsys, the marauding patent protector?aka troll?has filed a bevy of lawsuits alleging the infringement of '078 Patent by an updated list of companies, including for the first time, five adult ones.

One of six identical lawsuits filed May 10 by East Texas troller The Davis Group names five adult entertainment companies as defendants?GMCI Internet Operations Inc., Playboy Enterprises Inc., RK Netmedia Inc., Score Internet Group and Vouyer Media Inc.?and in the five page complaint names five specific websites operated by each?penthouse.com, playboy.com, realitykings.com, 18eighteen.com and voyeurmedia.com?as infringing "at least claim 1 of the ?078 patent under 35 U.S.C. § 271."

rest of the story:

http://business.avn.com/articles/tec...rs-475507.html

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There have been several companies that were contacted by Lodsys last year to license their patents that are not included in this lawsuit. To my knowledge, none of them did it. If you operate a paysite there's high chance you were contacted by them.

more fucking nonsense

Check out the non-adult companies being sued:

Quote:

The patent includes a number of uses and dozens of subsidiary claims that allow it to cover a range of functions related to consumer interaction utilized by websites across a vast range of industries, as evidenced by the complete list of companies sued in this latest Lodsys blitzkrieg: Bank of America Corp., Epicor Software Corp., Hoovers Inc., Market America Inc., Network Solutions, Overstock.com Inc., Sleepy's, The Estee Lauder Companies Inc., Becker Professional Development Corp., Cabela's Inc., Charming Shoppes Inc., HSN Inc., Nike Inc., The Men's Warehouse Inc., Tivo Inc., Foster and Smith Inc., Recreational Equipment Inc., Walgreen Co., Rosetta Stone Inc., Dell Inc., AVG Technologies USA Inc., GFI Software Inc., Kaspersky Lab Inc., Raxco Software Inc., Symantec Corp., Webroot Software Inc., GMCI Internet Operations Inc., Playboy Enterprises Inc., RK Netmedia Inc., Score Internet Group and Vouyer Media Inc.

Isn't making money fun?

What fucking bullshit this is...

Hmm, I guess nobody has ever "gathered information on a network" before them :1orglaugh

Preliminary Invalidity Analysis for Lodsys's '078 Patent

http://iptarget.blogspot.com/2011/05...lysis-for.html