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Patent Troll Sues Restaurants and Hotels Offering Wi-Fi, Copies RIAA's
Read more at: Maximum PC | Patent Troll Sues Restaurants and Hotels Offering Wi-Fi, Copies RIAA's Slimy TacticsThink Apple’s patent war against Samsung is ballsy and ridiculous? You’re right – it is. But there’s an even worse patent troll sculking around, and it’s much more sinister; while Apple and Microsoft are busy targeting other megacorporations, the Deleware-based Innovatio IP Ventures, LLC, is busy suing any mom-and-pop restaurant or hotel franchisee that offers Wi-Fi to its customers.
......Theoretically, Innovatio’s claims could open the possibility of the firm suing everyday folks with Wi-Fi routers, though Matthew McAndrews, the group’s attorney, told The Patent Examiner that it had no plans to pursue residential customers at this stage.......
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