Apple Handed The Motherboard of All Patent Lawsuits [Blip]

Another day, another patent lawsuit. Today's below-bridge dwelling plantiff is Taiwanese company VIA.

VIA has filed suit against Apple claiming infringement of three patents they own. The patents in question are: US Patents Nos. 6253312, Method and apparatus for double operand load, and 6253311 & 6754810, Instruction set for bi-directional conversion and transfer of integer and floating point data.

Company CEO, Wenchi Chen says "We are determined to protect our interests and the interests of our stockholders when our patents are infringed upon." Hopefully the new patent law signed by the president will put an end too, or at least slow down these sort of antics.

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Apple Wants to Halt All Motorola Patent Lawsuits [Patent Wars]

One of Apple 3rd Reich's patent war fronts is Motorola. Out of desperation, Motorola sued Apple first; then Apple sued Motorola. Now, Apple has asked the court to halt all Motorola patent suits, alleging they can't defend themselves.

Since Motorola is in the process of being acquired by Google, Apple says that they don't have standing to sue them anymore because that would be a job for the company buyer, Google. Right now, if the Google-Motorola deal goes through, Apple always loses. If Motorola wins, Apple would lose a lot of money in the process to a company that doesn't have a standing anymore. And if Apple wins, they could be sued by Google again. [TechCrunch]

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Samuel Jackson Sues Infotrack for Calling Him a Sex Offender [Lawsuits]

Samuel D. Jackson is suing the background check company Infotrack Information Services for confusing him with Samuel L. Jackson. Not Snakes on a Plane Samuel L. Jackson, the other one—you know, the sex offender.
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According the the lawsuit, Samuel D. Jackson was only four years old in 1987 when the felonious Jackson was convicted of rape in Virginia. And when he contacted the company to resolve the mix-up, a service representative allegedly disclosed that "the company's consumer reports frequently contain inaccurate sex offender information when the consumer has a common first and last name and that consumers frequently complain about the problem." The complaint asserts that middle names, DOBs and other identifying information were not used for any cross-checking. [Consumerist via Techdirt]

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