Google sued $ 1, 3 million from patent trolls Bashny.Net

Google went on principle and decided наказать Patent trolls , who extorted money from customers.

Back in January, Google won a court in Beneficial Innovations, because she demanded royalties from dozens of media sites for infringement of patents on Internet advertising. The reason for the filing of the claim was that they were clients banner network Google Doubleclick, while Google has already paid for the license and protect their customers from paying such fees.

In January, the court ruled in favor of Google and appointed a symbolic payment of 1 dollar in favor of the plaintiff. But Google was not the purpose of protection against the troll and attack. The task was to win Beneficial Innovations on his "native land", that is, in the state of Texas, the court which usually supports patent trolls.

Google will soon passed into the attack and filed a new lawsuit, forcing the troll to pay almost the full payment of court costs. August 26, 2014 Court of пересмотрел earlier decision and set the amount of compensation in the amount of $ 1, 3 million.

This small sum for Google (as a search engine earns about 10 minutes of work). But there was a question of principle - to withdraw money from a troll and fight it to the end, that turned out very successfully. For Beneficial Innovations is a much more sensible amount, because she herself spend on litigation, and now more and forced to compensate the costs of the opponent.

However, the amount of compensation was a $ 101 thousand. Less than requested because the court refused to compensate for the money paid Google independent experts to testify in court.

The case involved two patents Beneficial Innovations: 6, 712, 702 , «continuation" of the infamous patent on online games, and < a href = "https://www.google.com/patents/US7496943"> 7, 496, 943 on the system display advertisements.



By the way, the patent Beneficial Innovations on network games included in the list Electronic Frontier Foundation as one of 10 patents, representing the greatest danger to the public domain.

Source: habrahabr.ru/post/234965/