Overeager Patent Troll Can't Tell Github From Its Web Host
Found on Techdirt on Thursday, 20 September 2012
PersonalWeb is adding to its ridiculous legacy by suing Rackspace as well, though as the complaint makes clear, PersonalWeb seems mighty confused about what it's suing over.
That's because it seems to be claiming that Rackspace is responsible for... GitHub. Now, it isn't just filing about GitHub, but also Rackspace Cloud Servers, which obviously are a Rackspace product.
M-CAM, a company which specializes in analyzing the quality of patents, found PersonalWeb's patents so egregious that it proposed an award named after the examiner on a bunch of them, Khanh B. Pham.
Again a fine example why software patents should be killed as fast as possible; they just stop innovation and only open the doors for ridiculous lawsuits like this one.