Fire Alarms Systems

the absolute is that, unlike many other legal matters, which is almost impossible to get a patent claim easily dismissed. Thank you to the most arcane rules in the form of struggles over patents on the work, almost always has to go to court if the parties can not agree. Patent attorneys of this love, of course. It makes a lot of money. But it would be desirable, if extremely ridiculous, courts would be quick to download such claims. Earlier this year, wrote about how patents lawyer Dinesh Agarwal had patent 6,408,309 "Method and system for creating interactive virtual community of famous people." It's not a joke. Worse, said Twitter infringed the patent. Yes, for daring to have a community that certain celebrities have decided to use ... suddenly, it is a patent infringement.

course, as we noted at the time, the patent seems to cover what Twitter does not. But why let that case go on? And while Twitter has tried to play games on the jurisdictional issues that the case be transferred (or not), it seemed like the kind of case that

must

lead to an early exit. Instead, as noted by Richard Gailey, the court rejected an attempt to get the Twitter rejected, and now moves to the test. Of course, the judge also put pressure on Twitter to accept (ie pay) the patent holder, which only serves to perpetuate this kind of ridiculous. Hoping that Twitter is ready to fight against this
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