{"id":9751,"date":"2013-04-05T14:29:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T19:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9751"},"modified":"2013-04-05T14:29:59","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T19:29:59","slug":"rackspace-sues-most-notorious-patent-troll-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9751","title":{"rendered":"Rackspace sues \u201cmost notorious patent troll in America\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Rackspace&#8217;s dispute is with an IP Nav unit called Parallel Iron, which says it has three patents that cover the open source Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). But remarkably, Rackspace didn&#8217;t even know that at first; IP Nav contacted Rackspace and told the company it infringed some patents while refusing to even reveal the numbers or the owners of the patents, unless Rackspace signed a &#8220;forbearance agreement&#8221; to not sue first. (Sometimes companies threatened by patent trolls can file a &#8220;declaratory judgment&#8221; lawsuit, which can help them win a more favorable venue.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2013\/04\/rackspace-sues-most-notorious-patent-troll-in-america\/\">Rackspace sues \u201cmost notorious patent troll in America\u201d | Ars Technica<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rackspace&#8217;s dispute is with an IP Nav unit called Parallel Iron, which says it has three patents that cover the open source Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). But remarkably, Rackspace didn&#8217;t even know that at first; IP Nav contacted Rackspace &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9751\">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":[1096,402,301,637],"class_list":["post-9751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ip","tag-fight-back","tag-hadoop","tag-patent-trolls","tag-rackspace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9751","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=9751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}