{"id":9286,"date":"2013-02-13T17:58:34","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T23:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9286"},"modified":"2013-02-13T17:58:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T23:58:34","slug":"wi-fi-patent-troll-hit-with-racketeering-suit-emerges-unscathed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9286","title":{"rendered":"Wi-Fi patent troll hit with racketeering suit emerges unscathed"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Innovatio deliberately avoided targeting the actual manufacturers of Wi-Fi equipment, preferring to sue end-users. But in October, Cisco, Netgear, and Motorola teamed up to file an 81-page lawsuit [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.docstoc.com\/docs\/document-preview.aspx?doc_id=132803542\">PDF<\/a>] seeking to shut down Innovatio&#8217;s patent-trolling project once and for all. Not only were the patents invalid, but the suit alleged Innovatio&#8217;s whole campaign was a violation of the RICO anti-racketeering law. That law is more commonly <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Racketeer_Influenced_and_Corrupt_Organizations_Act#Application_of_RICO_laws\">used<\/a> against crime families than patent holders.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2013\/02\/wi-fi-patent-troll-hit-with-novel-anti-racketeering-charges-emerges-unscathed\/\">Wi-Fi patent troll hit with racketeering suit emerges unscathed | Ars Technica<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Innovatio deliberately avoided targeting the actual manufacturers of Wi-Fi equipment, preferring to sue end-users. But in October, Cisco, Netgear, and Motorola teamed up to file an 81-page lawsuit [PDF] seeking to shut down Innovatio&#8217;s patent-trolling project once and for all. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9286\">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":[875,301,78],"class_list":["post-9286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ip","tag-litigation","tag-patent-trolls","tag-wifi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9286","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=9286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}