I still think it's so funny that, whenever we have a patent infringement post, people ignorantly talk about the vagueness of patents and what can/cannot be patented.

i want one!

i like 3d so much i live in it

i needs one. dog is sick. needs moneys.

j/k

it doesn't rupture the bubbles as much as causes it to resonate at a specific frequency. the ultrasound wouldn't effect other parts of the body and it doesn't go very deep anyways. don't know why this is taking so long as i've been reading about it for the past 5 years...

looks fake. q9c is selling on sprint.com for $399.99.

how would losing the patent because everyone does it make any sense? when you file the patent, you HOPE that everyone does it. patent life is 20 years from filing date in most cases. if they're filing a suit now, it means that it's still valid, giving the filing date between 1988 and now.

there are plenty of potential reasons why the suit happened now. i'm sure the inventors knew all along it was being infringed. issues of money for litigation is a common problem as small companies don't have the funds that a large corporation does. it could be they found investors and decided to go for it or they could've convinced a law firm to go on a contingency basis (maybe a 50/50 deal) so if they bring in $100 million, the law firm gets $50 million. if that's the case, the law firm was obviously convinced of not only the validity but the infringement as well.

sheesh, every time one of these patent cases come up, there are plenty of people who try to claim the case invalid because everyone does it. you're missing the POINT of a patent. most likely, the patent was filed in the mid-80s to early 90s. are you saying that you know for sure that everyone was already doing what the patent covers at that time? because if that were truly the case, the patent would never be issued.

people on this board are so quick to jump in and throw out a "patent troll" without understanding anything. in the IP/business world, patents are considered assets that are supposed to generate revenue. if you don't want to generate revenue, you don't file a patent (except for the idiots who file patents for stupid things). look at IBM and qualcomm. both companies generate a significant portion of their revenue from IP even though a company like qualcomm hasn't made a phone in years yet their IP side brings in what, like 60% of their total revenues? it wouldn't be a surprise to me either that more motorola cases start coming out as their mobile division keeps failing.

stop throwing the patent troll terms out and saying how just because you do this method, the patent is invalid because it's stupid. if nothing else, i hope they read this board, see your company, and adds them to the suit. this company is built on small businesses and if this patent is valid, they deserve their money. what you are missing is that every one of the companies sued are fully aware of the existence of this patent because, if it's truly valid, they would cite it in their own patents. willful infringement is illegal and punishment will fullow.

anyone else having trouble installing this? ran the cab and moved all the forms over with total commander and it's not really working. it pairs for like a second and then it loses the connection.

now the dll files can't b e overwritten or moved or anything, sharing problems.