Company Gets Patent On Digital Downloads; Sues Everyone

Techdirt has a take on Intertainer's recent patent suit(s) regarding video download. I really like the quote from Eric Goldman.

Company Gets Patent On Digital Downloads; Sues Everyone

There's been quite a trend lately of companies who had otherwise completely failed in the marketplace to suddenly reinvent themselves as "patent licensing firms" and then go and sue everyone who actually was able to successfully innovate in the market. The latest entrant is Intertainer, a company that was fairly well known for a few bubble years, but was unable to find a real market for their online video distribution system. ...
The best comment in the article, though, goes to Eric Goldman, an expert in high tech law, who notes: "I have the same problem with this patent as so many of the patents of the dot-com boom days: I don't know what it means."

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