News Update: Xerox Sues Google, Yahoo! for Patent Infringement

News Update: Xerox Sues Google, Yahoo! for Patent Infringement More Patent Trouble For Google As BT Alleges Infringement | TechCrunch

@Benjamin Kerensa
Patent Trolls are the worst.
@Hoi Sta
Had a quick look, seems like most of the "infringements" are related to handover between wifi and cellular and detection of location based on wireless signaling. Whilst most of the wired internet is effectively IP-free, the wireless world is chock full of patents from your old 1G through to LTE, cellular handover to Wifi, fixed to wireless convergence.. it's a legal minefield of patents, even to the extent of the next generation of wireless TV (bunch of patents there waiting for the revolution of the TV to come around before the patents start flying off the wall).
@Shanmuga Subramanian
I think there is something wrong with the whole patent mechanism..Only the technology or the way that is used to execute an idea should patented and not the idea itself.. All these patents are nothing but absurd.. E.g Compressing Text into Images is an idea (This can't/should not be patented) whereas the ways to execute the idea can be patented.. I think we need some whole sale changes in Patent laws..
@Michael A. Robson
"I think there is something wrong with the whole patent mechanism" Tread lightly: Google is founded on a software patent: Ever heard of PageRank? Somehow that's not part of Google's "Open" philosophy..
@Shanmuga Subramanian
Michael A. Robson I am not speaking for Google here.. Pagerank is actually "a way to rank the pages by algorithm" ..Here the problem is not about patenting Pagerank ..someone actually has patented this "Rank pages by algorithm"
@Hamish Robertson
Google can afford it.
@Paul Berman
Here's another dumb lawsuit against Google. Apple must've been the devil on BT's shoulder here too.
@Habibullah Khan
TechCrunch we need an infographic. I simply can't keep track who is suing whom. It's like watching the warlords in Somalia!
@Dwayne Charrington
I am surprised people aren't being sued for breathing oxygen. Wouldn't surprise me if someone has already patented things like breathing, eating, walking and sleeping. Absolutely ridiculous, you shouldn't be allowed to hold a patent if you haven't actually got a physical product to show for it. It's not the idea, it's the implementation and yet it seems that the patent system believes in the exact opposite being: it's not the implementation but rather the idea. Makes me wonder if monkey's are running the world?