{"id":6615,"date":"2012-09-19T13:50:11","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T18:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=6615"},"modified":"2012-09-19T15:26:15","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T20:26:15","slug":"patent-trolls-make-them-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=6615","title":{"rendered":"Patent Trolls: Make Them Pay!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Rackspace has been subjected to yet another patent lawsuit by a patent troll looking for a settlement. In this case, the plaintiff is called PersonalWeb Technologies. This particular lawsuit is not much different than the others, except that it highlights why software patent litigation suppresses innovation, and why Congress and the courts need to improve the system. If it wasn\u2019t such a serious issue we might want to laugh at the irony of it all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rackspace.com\/blog\/patent-trolls-make-them-pay\/\">The Official Rackspace Blog &#8211; Patent Trolls: Make Them Pay!<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In fact, GitHub is a perfect example of a company that is built to foster and enhance innovation. The GitHub repository service for software development projects has achieved legendary status among open source developers all over the world. <strong>GitHub has over 2.1 million users hosting over 3.7 million repositories<\/strong>. <strong>They are a paragon of innovation.<\/strong> Yet PersonalWeb has the audacity to file a lawsuit which alleges that \u201cRackspace Cloud Servers and GitHub Code Hosting Service\u201d infringe some obscure patent from 1999 that has nothing to do with Rackspace and GitHub. Who is truly innovating here, PersonalWeb or Rackspace and GitHub?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.personalweb.com\/Technology.html\">Here<\/a>&#8216;s a list of their patents.\u00a0 My favorite:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/patft.uspto.gov\/netacgi\/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&amp;Sect2=HITOFF&amp;p=1&amp;u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&amp;r=1&amp;f=G&amp;l=50&amp;co1=AND&amp;d=PTXT&amp;s1=8,099,420&amp;OS=8,099,420&amp;RS=8,099,420\" target=\"_blank\">8,099,420<\/a> Accessing Data In A Data Processing System<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rackspace has been subjected to yet another patent lawsuit by a patent troll looking for a settlement. In this case, the plaintiff is called PersonalWeb Technologies. This particular lawsuit is not much different than the others, except that it highlights &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=6615\">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":[642,301,637],"class_list":["post-6615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ip","tag-github","tag-patent-trolls","tag-rackspace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6615","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=6615"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6617,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6615\/revisions\/6617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}