Oracle Sues To Stop Lodsys Patent Trolling
from the oh-irony dept
Oracle apparently has no sense of irony when it comes to patents. The day after a judge issued a complete smackdown in Oracle’s “big” patent and copyright lawsuit against Google, Oracle has suddenly decided that it doesn’t like patent bullies. Well, as long as the bully isn’t Oracle. It filed its own case against Lodsys — the quite infamous patent troll that has been threatening and suing tons of companies for daring to do in-app payments. Apparently, Lodsys has targeted Oracle customers and the company has had enough. It’s actually good to see more tech companies fight back against Lodsys, but it does seem a bit odd on the timing for Oracle, given its over-emphasis on the importance of not violating patents in the earlier case.
Filed Under: apps, irony, patent troll
Companies: lodsys, oracle
Comments on “Oracle Sues To Stop Lodsys Patent Trolling”
*Insert Mark Hamill's Joker laugh*
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
That’s funny!!
Irony, eh?
You need more solid iron for that?
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Oracle’s irony meter is anaemic.
Interesting
Maybe the smackdown was so powerful and effective that the company learned that patent trolling is bad? Maybe this is a sign that they realized their mistake and want to help make things right?
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“Maybe the smackdown was so powerful and effective that the company learned that patent trolling is bad? Maybe this is a sign that they realized their mistake and want to help make things right?”
No… -this- is where Mark Hamill’s laugh belongs.
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I love his “Joker” laugh!
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No, that’s his generic laugh (see also, Avatar: the Last Airbender. His laugh is really fucking creepy.
Oracle is right to pursue this, irrespective of its actions elsewhere. Or are people here saying that once a company has made a big fool of itself we don’t want them to take action against trolls?
At least Oracle do develop.
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Don’t think anybody is saying that they shouldn’t take action against trolls. It is just the timing makes their change of position interesting.
I get a mental image of one ugly shark on a feeding frenzy being eaten by another ugly shark on a feeding frenzy …
In this case, I think PJs quote from Groklaw is appropriate:
” See why I always tell you that to avoid whiplash, don’t look at the parties in litigation and decide who you like, but anaylze the issues involved and plant your flag accordingly? Hence, here we are, on the same side of this issue, Groklaw and Oracle. Who’d-a thunk it last week?”
I think oracle are bastards for the java case, but awesome for this case.
This was all part of Oracle’s master plan to get smacked down in court to have precedence in order to unleash fury against all other patent trolls.
Smackdown
Personally I don’t give a RA about Oracle.
But if more companies with deep pockets went after these Patent Trolls, we would soon be rid of them.
How about it Google? Microsoft? Apple?…Uh,never mind.
My bad.
Me thinks they need to be introduced to the concept of irony.
In another news Righthaven sues Lodsys for daring to be a copyright troll without their consent.
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would not RightHaven also be able to sue Oracle, don’t they also have the patent on “big fail”
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There’s not enough iron in the world to stop the Ironeers at Oracle. Which they licensed from Disney’s Imagineers.
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Bastard + awesome = Bawesome?
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Asstard
out of hand
I think that (1) in general, patent owners should be free to enforce their IP in the face of infringement, but (2) the mobile app patent wars are a different animal entirely, and have gotten out of hand. Likely this is one of the (IMHO) rare cases in which overenforcement of IP (by NPEs against small developers) may well be hindering technological advancement.