An East Texas jury anew awarded a relatively small minicomputer firm patent troll a pretty hefty redress (in you and me dollars) in a patent violation




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document.write(l suit that named Google, Yahoo, Amazon, AOL, and Myspace as defendants. The jury awarded Bedrock laptop* Technologies LLC $5 million for a patent anent the Linux kernel found in the windows behind Google's servers. The patent in examine is described as a "method and apparatus for inside story* storage and retrieval using a hashing address with ostensible chaining and on-the-fly removal of expired data." It appears Google is the first of the defendants to face a judgement, but we have a feeling this decision might have set a precedent. Of course, no transgression suit would be end up without a healthy helping of appeals -- and insomuch as the decision came from a section court, we can almost charter this case is no exception. You didn't expect the big guys to stay down for the count, did you?



Update: As it turns out, the suer




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in query here, Bedrock world wide web banking brain* Technologies, is really owned by David Garrod, a lawyer and patent reform activist. Ars Technica profiled Garrod next the initial suit, pointing to the clear contradiction between his piscary and reform efforts. What's more, Bedrock sued Google and the rest of the defendants in June 2009. Just six months later, Bedrock was back in the courtroom, but this time it was on the receiving end. Red Hat, the company supplying the OS behind Google's search engine services, was suing Bedrock for patent invalidity.

Google ordered to pay $5 million in Linux patent violation




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