RSSGraphOn adds Google to lengthening list of lawsuit targets
By Jacqueline Emigh | Published August 18, 2008, 12:23 PM
In the latest of a barrage of lawsuits against various and sundry operators of "automated and network-automated databases," Web development company GraphOn is now hauling Google into court on allegations of patent infringement.
In a complaint filed in US District Court in Texas, GraphOn is charging that Google's Base, YouTube, Blogger, Sites, and AdWords services violate a total of four patents the company now owns.
Also cited in a still unresolved suit by GraphOn against Yahoo, CareerBuilder, eHarmony, Match.com, and IAC/Interactive Corp., the four patents include US Patents No. 6,324,538 (also known as "the '538 patent"), 7,028,034 ("the '034 patent"), 7.269,591 ("the '591 patent"), and 6,850,940 ("the '940 patent").
In a third action -- which ended in a settlement in January of this year -- GraphOn sued AutoTrader.com for allegedly infringing on the '538 and '940 patents.
Meanwhile, a lawsuit over patents for firewall and other network security technologies -- filed by GraphOn against Juniper Networks in August of last year -- is still pending.
GraphOn claims to have garnered ownership of the '538 and '940 patents -- together with "applications that resulted in the '034 and '591 patents" and "intellectual property, other patents, and other patent applications" -- through its buyout of Network Engineering Software (NES) back in 2005.
Some critics, though, are suggesting that the GraphOn patents are exceedingly broad. The '538 patent, for example, covers such operations as "providing an HTML front-end entry process associated with the Web server;" creating a personal homepage for an owner; and "providing a Web server coupled to a computer network having a database operatively disposed within and accessible on [a] network."
Find the deep pockets and hope you get lucky. Google has more and better lawyers. They can tie your a** up in court for years. The Texas venue says it all.
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|GraphOn looks like work creation scheme for lawyers, bless them.
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|Software patents are bad, even for google.
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|What is this world comming to when someone starts a business to make money? God forbid along the way they dominate with a better product and crush the competition. What's next, creating jobs and income for the cubicule dwellers of the world?
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|Another sue happy butt hole who thinks he can make a quick buck off a group that actually worked for there money.
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|Yay for patent trolls!
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|Well, whatever's bad for Google is good for me. I wish they all die and burn in hell, with they g**d*** corporate machine and i-ll-be-in-all-businesses model.
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|lmao..
Jealous much?
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|Nigplz. It's not about that, it's about google gaining more and more foothold into people's lives and the only reason for that is money they throw on every project.
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|You could, ya know, just not sign up for their services or download their apps.
Then, they'd have *no* foothold in your life.
This choice thing...it's kinda cool. ;)
That business model seems to be working quite well for them and their shareholders...
As for:
and the only reason for that is money they throw on every project.
Right. Their search's only reason for success is money. Gmail's only reason for success is money... What a narrow little world you must live in.
Oh, and I ain't your "Nig", Homeboy.
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|Hating on successful corporations is the hip thing to do. The more successful, the more you have to hate them. Google is poised to dethrone Microsoft soon as the most hated corporation. The funny thing is that it's always some dumb kid working at McDonald's or Best Buy who hates these big, PUBLICLY TRADED, corporations for the enormous profits they make. You don't see any of the shareholders complaining. :)
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|...or the vast majority of users, but then again, the BK employee knows better than all of them. ;)
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