{"id":10459,"date":"2013-06-27T15:36:08","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T20:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10459"},"modified":"2013-06-27T15:36:08","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T20:36:08","slug":"patent-troll-that-sues-public-transit-systems-gets-hauled-into-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10459","title":{"rendered":"Patent troll that sues public transit systems gets hauled into court"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>ArrivalStar doesn&#8217;t want to litigate; it wants fast cash. The company has never taken a case to trial, and last year it admitted it had only seen one case through to the early &#8220;claim construction&#8221; phase.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2013\/06\/patent-troll-that-sues-public-transit-systems-gets-hauled-into-court\/\">Patent troll that sues public transit systems gets hauled into court | Ars Technica<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This patent troll recently settled with Metra for $50K, Chicago&#8217;s local train operator.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a Chicago Tribune article:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/ct-met-transit-patent-trolls-20130627,0,5586799.story\">Metra paid $50,000 in &#8216;frivolous&#8217; patent suit, officials say &#8211; chicagotribune.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ArrivalStar doesn&#8217;t want to litigate; it wants fast cash. The company has never taken a case to trial, and last year it admitted it had only seen one case through to the early &#8220;claim construction&#8221; phase. via Patent troll that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10459\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[301],"class_list":["post-10459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ip","tag-patent-trolls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}