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Priceline founder takes aim at Apple, more than 100 others in patent suit

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Priceline founder takes aim at Apple, more than 100 others in patent suit

Apple joins other major technology companies including Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Facebook as defendants in a new lawsuit from Walker Digital, which founded the travel site Priceline.com.


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Conspicuous that Walker Digital's representative there couldn't list a single item/technology/idea/concept that all those other companies had supposedly stole from them.

While we all know the stories of the innovations that all the defendant companies have - to put it as diplomatically as possible - "borrowed" from each-other, I see no evidence in that article that any of them have taken anything from Walker Digital (a company I'd not even heard of, aside from via its subsidiary Priceline.com, before reading that article).

I'm not buying it, not one little bit. I think they're just low on cash & trying to scare all those companies into making juicy settlements, but it won't work as I'm sure those companies did invent (or at least develop into something usable) what WD is claiming credit for...
 
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I would love to see fundamental reform in the US legal system where the cost of the entire legal proceeding is charged to the idiot plaintiff when the case is dismissed for being ridiculous.

Would stop a lot of these frivolous lawsuits for sure.
 

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