Apple getting sued again by patent profiteers

It staleness be hard to be as favourite as Apple. You're ever fighting the competition, who sometimes become late to the dance with a wannabee product, then deliver snarky punches into the kidneys with their TV ads. Even worsened are the lawyers, who lot the consort like a flock of vultures, picking absent at whatever sexy bits of meat they crapper get.

But the genuine lowermost feeders are the "patent trolls," a specific species of accumulation concern that has picked up patents from companies that usually never brought a creation to market. They check for another companies to become discover with products that ingest a piece of profession that haw or haw not be awninged under the patents they hold, and then either process the consort for papers misconduct or obligate them to pay license fees. This writing from jural concern Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP info the strategy used by papers trolls and how targets crapper fight back.

Apple's stylish attack, as reportable in Macworld, is reaching from St. Clair Intellectual Property Consultants Inc. (SCIPC), a concern prefabricated up of digit lawyers who purchased patents for US$100,000 from a assemble of investors who failed to move up a digital camera company. The consort says that its patents counterbalance profession that allows digital cameras to save pictures in binary formats. So far, SCIPC raked in over US$179 meg from different another consumer electronics firms (Sony and Canon, to study meet two), and today its leveled the sights at Apple.

SCIPC filed its lawsuit October 26th in Delaware, suing Apple for violating Patent 5,138,459, entitled "Electronic Still Video Camera with Direct Personal Computer (PC) Compatible Digital Formal Output." The suit is specifically targeting the iPhone and another devices prefabricated by Apple that allow digital cameras in them. Judging from the jural illustration that has been set by preceding SCIPC suits, Apple could easily be about to bomb discover some bounteous bucks to a bright troll.