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While most of the world was sleeping off its Christmas food-fest, appeals judges in the US killed off a long-running lawsuit against Cisco. In the eight-year sueball spat, a company called Commil USA reckoned The Borg had infringed its US patent 6,430,395 ("Wireless private branch exchange and communicating between mobile …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    Has anyone got the ratio of patents to court cases? That would be interesting.

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  2. Your alien overlord - fear me

    cost of patent infringement $64 million. Cost of legal fees to date $100 million (probably). Would have been cheaper for The Borg to just buy Commil !!

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    1. Expectingtheworst
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      You do not seem to see many No win, No fee cases !

      I wonder what would happen if all this type of ligation had to be, by law - No win, No fee

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  3. a_yank_lurker

    At least

    At least the trolls finally lost. Too many software patents fail for two reasons: one they are often basically automating a manual or semi-manual process; or they are an obvious solution to a competent programmer after studying the problem. While both require some skill to produce a workable solution neither is inherently patentable.

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    1. A Non e-mouse Silver badge
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      Too many software patents fail [because]...they are an obvious solution to a competent programmer

      But not to a lawyer who gets paid a large sum of money regardless of who wins the case.

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  4. Leitchy

    <gasp> Unnecessary?? How dare you...of course it had to do another round of litigation!

    The lawyers hadn't soaked the case for all it was worth yet.

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