According to Timeline's SEC filing last week, Microsoft agreed to pay Timeline $5 million within 14 days as part of the settlement. Timeline, which describes itself as a "company ... solely focused on commercializing its patent portfolio," had sued the Redmond computer giant and its subsidiary ProClarity Corp. for patent infringement.
IBM Corp. says it has dreamed up a new method for profiting from its vast storehouse of patents. And by the way, the company wants to patent the idea.
Comments
Eric Gearhart
2007-10-25 13:41:54
How do you know IBM will use this patent for "evil" and not "good"? What if IBM uses this to sue anyone who tries to be a patent troll in the future? That would be a nice hack on the broken patent system, wouldn't you say?
Roy Schestowitz
2007-10-25 14:16:13