PanIP May Be Standing On Shaky Ground 261
GoatEnigma writes "You may remember the name PanIP, the company trying to hold e-commerce hostage with their patents. Well, according to this update on the PanIP Defendants site, it might not be as easy as they thought. Apparently a little bit of successful legal opposition has slowed down their nefarious scheme. Tim claims to have found evidence to undermine their patents, although the article is very short on details as to what this evidence might be..."
Obviously... (Score:5, Funny)
Duh. Obviously, they found it had been copied from SCO source.
This just in (Score:3, Funny)
Brazen (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Patents are wrong (Score:1, Funny)
Well, everyone knows that he didn't pay rent, because he lived in an office in the MIT AI lab.
For food, I imagine he scavenged leftovers from the office fridge.
Re:This just in (Score:2, Funny)
In former SOVIET RUSSIAN countries, all verbal contract relationships must be reversed (and yes, this includes YOU).
The abrogation of IP law means that all trade practice between initial supply and PROFIT! must be kept secret (redacted with "???" in documentation if necessary).
You don't even want to know about the hot grits and penis bird ones.
And of course, then there's SCO. Your cheque is in the mail...
Annoying trend? (Score:2, Funny)
A lot of that going around these days, isn't there?
I'm wondering what implications all this top-secret evidence non-sense will have in the long run. Are we soon going to see court cases where all of the evidence is secret? "Releasing that evidence to the court would violate our IP rights. You will just have to take our word for it that things look bad for the defense with this evidence."
Should I be worried or will such a day never dawn? Lawyers care to comment?
Modern Day Pirates (Score:3, Funny)