Patent Troll Klausner settles with Verizon
Before you get uppity about having us call Klausner Technologies a patent troll, consider what they’ve been doing since their invention of the PDA: Suing everyone under the sun who has used visual voicemail. What else can you do when you’re no more than a one-hit wonder and your cheap Flash website offers nothing more than visual voicemail licensing information (which does nothing but give you their email address for inquiries)? After being successful with their suits against AT&T, Apple, and Comcast in the past, it seems they’re out for a little more cash and have targeted Verizon. With the prior success (read settlements) of past lawsuits, their action against Verizon was pretty much guaranteed $$$. While financial details of the settlement haven’t been disclosed, it’s pretty clear that Klausner is going to get a pretty penny looking at their history. We really don’t have a problem when people get sued over using someone else’s product without proper licensing (Nokia + Qualcomm) but we take major issue with patent trolls; they do nothing but act as a large speed bump to companies who are putting out technologies and services we like.
Tags: Apple, AT&T, Comcast, Klausner, licensing, patent troll, patents, Verizon, Visual Voicemail
Why can’t these companies band together with their substantially larger warchest and do some sort of hostile takeover of the patent troll company and release the patent.
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You seriously think, that someone taking someone else’s idea without permission is bad. Thats your last line in the blog article here.
But you think, that when a lot of people, larger conglomerate and sometimes insane corporations do it - then it’s ok?
So Patent Troll Klausner should sit back, and let people take his patent without licensing or anything?
Sorry, he can be called all the names you want - but it is his right - almost similiar to your right to call him a name, for going after his right…
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thats what i was thinking.. Im pretty sure verizon/att/whoever has a larger legal budget to dominate these morons. Im sure they have the time and money to just make this case drag and drag until the other company runs out of money and has to give up.
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Of course, if I was ever sued by a large corporation with a substantially larger legal budget than myself. I most likely would use my legal budget to purchase automatic weapons and bullets instead. Dead people can’t sue. However, I would probably send out fair notice that I would not be paying for a lawyer and I would instead be purchasing weapons and heading down to their headquarters at my earliest convenience unless they drop all legal action forthwith.
Semantics: The difference between being a menace and getting away with it or getting slapped with a “making terrorist threats” charge.
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you guys are really arguing against inventors getting paid for their inventions? and youre trying to defend large corporations knowingly stealing these ideas and trying to get away with it? ESPECIALLY since att, apple, et all had to end up settling there is no way vzw didnt know they needed to license the technology. way to make your site look even worse, yet again. at this point i expect nothing but shoddy biased journalism and uneducated opinions from this site. hell, id do better at phonenews.com at the rate you guys are deteriorating…
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@brian Get a clue. Patent trolls are called that for a reason. They patent ideas, never invent a damn thing, and then sit on their asses waiting for licensing fees or settlements.
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I think in this case it was big corp not doing thier research, none of this would’ve been necessary had they did. I would call it protecting they established not being a troll
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