Apple Loses Appeal in VirnetX Dispute, Could Owe Over $1.1 Billion

[Analog Kid]

For example, you can patent a new compressor design, that runs on unicorn farts

No, and this is important, you can’t. You need to provide enablement, and good luck documenting the digestive byproducts of unicorns.

 

[Analog Kid]

They're just middlemen though. I, the inventor, wanted cash for the patent now, and so they bought it off me. They're also taking on the risk that maybe the patent never actually gets implemented and so is actually worthless.

"Patent trolls" feel wrong, but I'm not sure that they are... as far as FaceTime previously being great, it seems like Apple had numerous choices for how to acquire the rights to the way they were doing it.

I’d argue that the difference between a middle man and a patent troll is that a troll sues as a shakedown, hoping the company they’re suing will settle rather than pay the expense of court even if they’re confident the troll lacks a case.

Actually winning in court multiple times against the legal might of Apple puts VirnetX outside the definition of a troll...

 

[cmaier]

LOL @ the corrupt American judicial process.

Calling things corrupt doesn’t make them corrupt.

 

[Fred Zed]

Calling things corrupt doesn’t make them corrupt.

Try broadening your horizons and looking at subjects via a bigger picture.

 

[cmaier]

Try broadening your horizons and looking at subjects via a bigger picture.

What the hell is that even supposed to mean?

What about Virnetx winning against apple makes the “american judicial process” corrupt? You’re the one making the vacuous statement. Defend it.