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Uniloc

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Name: Uniloc

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

Take off with X-Plane

As a college student, Austin Meyer was finding it difficult to keep up his instrument currency.Like so many pilots at the time, he was using Microsoft Flight Sim, but “I wasn’t happy with its flexibility,” he recalled. “I was having a heck of a time passing ... [Published General Aviation News - May 08 2013]

Entities: Austin Meyer, Uniloc, Lawsuit

First reported Apr 19 2013 - Updated Apr 19 2013 - 1 reports

New Tool Lets You See How Often A Patent Has Shown Up In Litigation

A few years back, a patent attorney made a simple suggestion to me, asking that, whenever I write about patent lawsuits, that I include the US patent number on the patent within the text of the article. He explained that for those sued, one of the most ... [Published Techdirt - Apr 19 2013]

Entities: Patent, Litigation, Uniloc

First reported Apr 02 2013 - Updated Apr 02 2013 - 1 reports

Rackspace Hosting Inc

Wilmer Scores Rare Section 101 Patent Win in East Texas

Building on a favorable trend for defendants, the chief judge of the Eastern District of Texas -- the biggest patent court in the land and a hotbed for non-practicing entities, or "patent trolls" -- has tossed a patent after finding it covers a law of ... [Published Law.com - Newswire - Apr 02 2013]

Entities: Patent, Uniloc, Chief Judge, Rackspace Hosting Inc

First reported Mar 28 2013 - Updated Mar 29 2013 - 3 reports

Even An East Texas Court Has Told Uniloc That It Can't Patent Math

Even a notoriously patent-friendly court like the district court in East Texas has admitted that there are limits to what's patentable. Notorious patent troll Uniloc, whose name has been appearing quite frequently lately, has lost one part of its ... [Published Techdirt - Mar 29 2013]

Entities: Uniloc, Patent, Lawsuit, District Court

First reported Feb 21 2013 - Updated Feb 21 2013 - 1 reports

Android developer fights evil patent troll

div class="video-container"> Katie sez, "The video profiles software developer Austin Meyer, who is the target of a patent troll lawsuit involving a company called Uniloc, which owns a patent for the "System and Method for Preventing Unauthorized ... [Published Boing Boing - Feb 21 2013]

Entities: Patent Troll, Austin Meyer, Uniloc, Android, Patent

First reported Feb 02 2013 - Updated Feb 02 2013 - 1 reports

Creator Of The X-Plane Flight Simulator Seeks Help Fighting A Patent Troll

Austin Meyer, creator of the popular and ultra-realistic flight sim, X-Plane , is facing a potentially destructive lawsuit by an East Texas patent troll, Uniloc . Meyer, who has worked on the simulator since 1995, isn’t dealing with a claim against ... [Published TechCrunch - Feb 02 2013]

Entities: Austin Meyer, Uniloc, Patent Troll

First reported Dec 24 2012 - Updated Dec 24 2012 - 1 reports

waddell; 44?

The email flashed onto Austin Meyer?s phone in the middle of a July air show in Osh Kosh, Wis.The message was from a Texas lawyer, offering to represent Meyer in a lawsuit. Meyer, a Columbia resident who makes flight-simulation software, thought the lawyer ... [Published South Carolina State - Dec 24 2012]

Entities: Austin Meyer, Uniloc, Lawsuit, Patent

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...CEET predicts a 460% increase in wireless cloud energy consumption between 2012 and 2015, advising that "there needs to be a focus on making access technologies more efﬁcient and potentially a reworking of how the industry manages data and designs the entire global network."

News briefs: Amazon Storage Gateway to run in Hyper-V, Moonshot launch [Published CIO Decisions - Apr 16 2013]

...against Rackspace, after the district court in Tyler, Texas has said one of the patents in question in this lawsuit, US Patent 5,892,697 on a "Method and apparatus for handling overflow and underflow in processing floating-point numbers" is really patenting basic mathematical functions, and you can't do that

Even An East Texas Court Has Told Uniloc That It Can't Patent Math [Published Techdirt - Mar 29 2013]

Katie sez, "The video profiles software developer Austin Meyer, who is the target of a patent troll lawsuit involving a company called Uniloc, which owns a patent for the "System and Method for Preventing Unauthorized Access to Electronic Data." Meyer's flight simulator app X-Plane, like most paid applications on the Android market, uses the authorization system. Uniloc purchased the patent in question at a bankruptcy proceeding. Despite the enormous risk, and the enormous cost just to defend against a patent suit, Meyer is resolved to do so."

Android developer fights evil patent troll [Published Boing Boing - Feb 21 2013]

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Take off with X-Plane [Published General Aviation News - May 08 2013]
New Tool Lets You See How Often A Patent Has Sh... [Published Techdirt - Apr 19 2013]
News briefs: Amazon Storage Gateway to run in H... [Published CIO Decisions - Apr 16 2013]
Rackspace: This Time, The Patent Troll’s Gonna Pay [Published SiliconANGLE - Apr 05 2013]
Wilmer Scores Rare Section 101 Patent Win in Ea... [Published Law.com - Newswire - Apr 02 2013]
Even An East Texas Court Has Told Uniloc That I... [Published Techdirt - Mar 29 2013]
Judge Says Mathematical Algorithms Can't Be Pat... [Published TechCrunch - Mar 28 2013]
Judge Says Mathematical Algorithms Can't Be Pat... [Published TechCrunch Europe - Mar 28 2013]
Rackspace, Red Hat Win Decisive Patent Victory [Published EON Business - Mar 28 2013]
Rackspace, Red Hat Win Decisive Patent Victory [Published Business Wire Professional Services News - Mar 28 2013]
Rackspace, Red Hat Win Decisive Patent Victory [Published Business Wire Technology News - Mar 28 2013]
Android developer fights evil patent troll [Published Boing Boing - Feb 21 2013]
Creator Of The X-Plane Flight Simulator Seeks H... [Published TechCrunch - Feb 02 2013]
waddell; 44? [Published South Carolina State - Dec 24 2012]

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New Tool Lets You See How Often A Patent Has Sh... [Published Techdirt - Apr 19 2013] A few years back, a patent attorney made a simple suggestion to me, asking that, whenever I write about patent lawsuits, that I include the US patent number on the patent within the text of the article. He explained that for those sued, one of the most ...
Rackspace: This Time, The Patent Troll’s Gonna Pay [Published SiliconANGLE - Apr 05 2013] Want know how to fight the plague that is patent trolls? Then you could try taking a leaf out of Rackspace’s book. The cloud infrastructure provider, buoyed by its success in seeing off a patent infringement lawsuit over Linux just last week, has ...
Even An East Texas Court Has Told Uniloc That I... [Published Techdirt - Mar 29 2013] Even a notoriously patent-friendly court like the district court in East Texas has admitted that there are limits to what's patentable. Notorious patent troll Uniloc, whose name has been appearing quite frequently lately, has lost one part of its ...
Judge Says Mathematical Algorithms Can't Be Pat... [Published TechCrunch - Mar 28 2013] A federal judge has thrown out a patent claim against Rackspace , ruling that mathematical algorithms can’t be patented. The ruling in the Eastern Disrict stemmed from a 2012 complaint filed by Uniloc USA asserting that processing of floating point ...
Judge Says Mathematical Algorithms Can't Be Pat... [Published TechCrunch Europe - Mar 28 2013] A federal judge has thrown out a patent claim against Rackspace , ruling that mathematical algorithms can’t be patented. The ruling in the Eastern Disrict stemmed from a 2012 complaint filed by Uniloc USA asserting that processing of floating point ...

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Rackspace, Red Hat Win Decisive Patent Victory [Published EON Business - Mar 28 2013]
Rackspace, Red Hat Win Decisive Patent Victory [Published Business Wire Professional Services News - Mar 28 2013]
Rackspace, Red Hat Win Decisive Patent Victory [Published Business Wire Technology News - Mar 28 2013]