Patent Law

Just Walk Away PA

By Gary Odom and Jordan Kuhn

PA Advisors got its hands on 6,199,067, saddled up the palomino, and rode on down to East Texas, aiming to get a little from Microsoft subsidiaries, Google, Yahoo!, Facebook, and others. After chatting with Facebook, PA took a powder, deciding not to pursue the suit further. No coin changes hands. Each party bears fees and costs.

PA had already shuffled off from the Microsoft contingent, as well as two other erstwhile defendants.

'067 claims user profiling. User profiling patents comprise a box of Obzilla dominos. Take it from one holding a domino.

Full post as published by The Patent Prospector on September 06, 2008 (boomark / email).