Nokia Feeds a Patent Troll 93
New submitter glebovitz writes "In case anyone missed the other Nokia news: on the same day they announced the sale of Qt to Digia, they also sold 500 patents to Vringo. Vringo, a video ring tone company, recently merged with patent portfolio company Innovate/Protect which includes Donald Stout, the founder of patent holding company NTP, on its board. Forbes refers to NTP as 'a patent troll which milked Research In Motion for $612.5 million in a patent infringement settlement reached in 2006.' As Eric Savitz writes in the article, 'Vringo decided to basically turn itself into a patent troll.'"
Patent trollism can't be exported (Score:3, Funny)
Well products can be sold abroad, but badly issued USPTO patents, they can't be exported. So it's time to analyze how much of the US economy the USPTO had destroyed.
Re:WTF (Score:5, Funny)
WTF is a "video ring tone company"?
You need to pay the license fee in order to obtain the proprietary information which compromises the patented answer to that question.
Re:WTF (Score:5, Funny)
WTF is a "video ring tone company"?
Those idiots who advertise on the 'cheap' channels, promising a free ringtone for your phone of some semi-popular quote or song if you text a certain number with your credit card info and set up a $10/mo. subscription with them.
Think of it as a company that administers a public telecom IQ test (hint: if you pass, you're not one of their customers).
Re:faith in humanity lost... (Score:4, Funny)
fuck humans ... everyone should stop breeding
You know, there's a contradiction somewhere there. Just can't seem to point my finger at it.