World's Largest Patent Troll Fires First Salvo

ChiefMonkeyGrinder writes "Yesterday the biggest software patent troll of all finally woke from its slumbers: Intellectual Ventures filed patent infringement complaints in the US District Court of Delaware against companies in the software security, DRAM and Flash memory, and field-programmable gate array industries. Intellectual Ventures was co-founded by Microsoft's former CTO Nathan Myhrvold, with others from Intel and a Seattle-based law firm." We discussed IV's potential for patent trollery last spring.

Re:Oh No, They Do Much More Than That!

[eldavojohn]

ddos the patent office, everyone file hundreds of patents.

*chuckles*

Oh Anonymous Coward, not all of life's problems can be solved with a DDOS. Like when my girlfriend left me last week and blocked my phone number -- calling her until her voice mail was full from work and friend's phones did no good.

Hate to One Up Ya But ...

[eldavojohn]

She's already been reported to Anonymous as the lead prosecutor in the Assange case. She will feel my love yet.