Google Takes a Small Step in Lodsys Patent-Troll Case 83
The Lodsys saga continues; reader WyzrdX writes with this excerpt from Wired: "Google has intervened in an ongoing intellectual property dispute between smartphone application developers and a patent-holding firm, Wired.com has learned, marking the Mountain View company's first public move to defend Android coders from a patent troll lawsuit that's cast a pall on the community. The company says it filed a request with the United States Patent and Trademark office Friday for reexamination of two patents asserted by East Texas-based patent firm Lodsys. Google's request calls for the USPTO to assess whether or not the patents' claims are valid."
Re:Small step is correct -- this is too little, st (Score:4, Interesting)
Google's intervention very nicely attacks at a different angle. So there may be twice the cost for Lodsys, who has plenty of work anyway with half a dozen cases against it for declaratory judgements.
Re:Ice Cream Sandwich (Score:4, Interesting)
If only google had access to some kind of electronic system for organizing and sifting through thousands of patents to pick out ones for further review by humans....