Litigation, the New Pastime
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So many things technical are being litigated these days, it is hard to keep up. As I’ve stated before, it seems that the primary reason for all the legal activity is the lack of money all these multi-million dollar corporations are bringing in, so the plan is to take some from a few multi-billion dollar corporations.
Now Google, a corporation that has a few extra millions, is the target of both Jarg Corporation, and Northeastern University. It seems that Northeastern holds a patent that it licensed to Jarg Corporation, and these entities have decided that Google is now infringing on said patent.
The suit, from a Boston law firm that wants to remain anonymous, claims that the principals from Jarg became aware of the infringement 2.5 years ago, but did nothing until now.
This begs the question “What triggered the lawsuit at this time and place?”. Could it possibly be the announcement of Google’s latest worth, and the per share stock price? Also, how did these people become aware of the infringement - were they privy to inside information?
Stranger and stranger…
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[tags] Google, Jarg Corp, Northeastern University, patent infringement [/tags]
4 Comments
Matt Williams
November 15th, 2007
at 4:36am
When I saw the headline “Litigation, the New Pastime” I assumed it was an article about Prince taking legal action against his fans.
Anyway, how is it that the Boston law firm can stay anonymous?
grannar olice
November 15th, 2007
at 6:46am
They became aware of the information because Google gives out extensive information about how their search engine works. I downloaded a large PDF explaining it a year or so ago–presumably well-motivated lawyers could do the same!
the oracle
November 15th, 2007
at 8:01am
Matt, I’m sure that the anonymity only lasts until the first day in court. I think it is sad that our country has become this way, and that there are so many lawyers with nothing better to do. As Shakespeare said…
Thanks for the comment.
the oracle
November 15th, 2007
at 8:04am
grannar, thanks for that. I had no idea that was the case. I then wonder why no other well funded company (er, Microsoft) has not done better or at least as well, already. Google still searches better for most things. I would have thought Lycos would have implemented the ideas and regained more of its old popularity.
Thanks for the input.