Sat, 24 Nov 2007

Apple pays $10m to end iTunes patent clash

Somebody, somewhere has to stand and make a fight over transparent blackmail like this - I thought maybe IBM had done so with SCO, but that case was too narrowly focused (and dealt more with copyright).

As long as companies like Apple and M$ just roll over and surrender to these demands because the cost of coughing up the extortion is less than the cost of beating it in court, we'll continue to be plagued by patent trolls and other con artists.

Apple has agreed to pay Burst.com $10m to settle the patent infringement challenge the smaller US company launched against it in April 2006.

(link) [The Register]

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