Apple stiffed with another Iphone lawsuit
A CALIFORNIAN FIRM reckons Apple has infringed its copyright of a "Mobile Entertainment and Communication Device" with its world-beating Iphone.
Minerva Industries, Inc. was granted the patent - No. 7,321,783 - this week and sharply set about stiffing Apple with its complaint.
Minerva says it warned Apple about its pending patent but the firm indulged in various shenanigans in order to beat the rap.
As a result, Minerva has "suffered monetary damages in an amount not yet determined," it reckons, and wants an injunction to be brought against Jobs' mob.
Minerva filed a similar complaint against satellite phone company Atlantic RT, Inc and, while it was at it, threw another suit at Blackberry maker Research In Motion and an outfit called Cricket Communications. Another complaint targets 29 firms in a list which sounds a bit like an A-Z of phone firms worldwide.
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There are individuals and groups of people who make a living at suing other people in this country of lawyers called the USA. That is what this looks like. A lot of patents are issued for ideas and that is contributing in causing all this crap.
Glenn
As much as I dislike the overhyped, underspecced iPhone, a quick google seems to show Minerva Industries are nothing but a patent cash machine.

They don't even show any products on their products page, just lists of patents they own!

Honestly, this kind of "business" is strangling innovation, who wants to spend a fortune on R&D making a product when someone else already has a bit of paper that vaguely describes it, but does absolutely none of the technical leg-work.
What?!

By some unusual metric, perhaps.