Do it “on the Internet,” get a patent, sue an industry—it still works
18 02 2013MARSHALL, TEXAS—The slide that defense lawyers showed to the jury read: “This isn’t new.” In a patent case, it could have been a smoking gun—after all, it was written by the inventors themselves. They were describing their business, Nexchange, to a San Francisco conference back in 2000; it was three years before they received their first patent and turned their focus to litigation.
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