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PTAB Petitioned to Help Against Patent Troll InfoGation Corp., Which Goes After Linux/Android OEMs in China

Google uses IPRs to eliminate everything that's left of this parasite

InfoGation Corp.Summary: A new example of software patents against Free software, or trolls against companies that are distributing freedom-respecting software from a country where these patents are not even potent (they don't exist there)

InfoGation Corp. [sic] (corporations typically make things) is not a real company. Maybe it used to actually do something in the distant past, but now it's just a pile of patents. Their Web site is a one-page stop, the classic troll-themed Web site, referring to "technology" (for so-called 'licensing') rather than actual products. Search the Web for the term "InfoGation Corp." and just about every single result will be about some lawsuit, which is rather telling.



"Search the Web for the term "InfoGation Corp." and just about every single result will be about some lawsuit, which is rather telling."Under the "Patent Trolling Archives" section, the Patent Investor described InfoGation Corp. as an "assertion entity" (fancy name for troll), noting that after it had gone after Taiwan's HTC (the first time we wrote about InfoGation Corp.) it also attacked other Google partners, mostly in China, e.g. ZTE and Huawei. Google stepped in to defend these partners.

Watchtroll is bashing PTAB, essentially by calling the patent holder, InfoGation Corp., "small software developer" (yes, software patents) and saying that those challenging the patents merely "gang up". This is quite a lot of Watchtroll FUD in quick succession, e.g. after it had published a piece we debunked this morning. We don't want to start a line-by-line rebuttal; instead we'll just say that Watchtroll has been grooming this troll for quite some time (it wrote quite a lot about it in the past). It also exploits it for PTAB bashing -- an old tradition at Watchtroll. Is PTAB going to trash some more software patents, thus taking InfoGation out of business once and for all? We sure hope so. This would help deter trolls and discourage further litigation such as this.

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