{"id":1656,"date":"2011-11-09T17:10:36","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T23:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=1656"},"modified":"2011-11-09T17:10:36","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T23:10:36","slug":"patently-absurd-forbes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=1656","title":{"rendered":"Patently Absurd &#8211; Forbes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>An awkward silence ensued. The blue suits did not even confer among themselves. They just sat there, stonelike. Finally, the chief suit responded. &#8220;OK,&#8221; he said, &#8220;maybe you don&#8217;t infringe these seven patents. But we have 10,000 U.S. patents. Do you really want us to go back to Armonk [IBM headquarters in New York] and find seven patents you do infringe? Or do you want to make this easy and just pay us $20 million?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After a modest bit of negotiation, Sun cut IBM a check, and the blue suits went to the next company on their hit list.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/asap\/2002\/0624\/044.html\">Patently Absurd &#8211; Forbes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Incredible.\u00a0 Article from 2002.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An awkward silence ensued. The blue suits did not even confer among themselves. They just sat there, stonelike. Finally, the chief suit responded. &#8220;OK,&#8221; he said, &#8220;maybe you don&#8217;t infringe these seven patents. But we have 10,000 U.S. patents. Do &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=1656\">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":[250,301],"class_list":["post-1656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ip","tag-oldnews","tag-patent-trolls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656","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=1656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1657,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions\/1657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}