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Companies that sue for patent infringement and lose should be require to pay 500% of the defendant's court costs.
Here comes the coffee thing again. McDonald's was serving the coffee hot enough to give people 3rd degree burns, it was not consumable and flat out dangerous. The lady had 3rd degree burns over 6% of her body and had to stay in hospital for days to undergo skin grafting. She deserved every penny. If you're going to pick a stupid court case pick one you actually know something about.
Here comes the coffee thing again. McDonald's was serving the coffee hot enough to give people 3rd degree burns, it was not consumable and flat out dangerous. The lady had 3rd degree burns over 6% of her body and had to stay in hospital for days to undergo skin grafting. She deserved every penny. If you're going to pick a stupid court case pick one you actually know something about.
Furthermore, the poor old lady (she was in her 70s!!) only asked for reimbursement for medical costs (something like 15k). McDonalds flat out REFUSED to pay anything, which is why they got sued and then paid out millions of dollars as a punishment in forms of punitive damages.
It was a damn good case and not nearly as frivolous as the uninformed claim.
if American Technology doesn't have the funds, they're probably set up on a contingent fee. If that's the case, the attorney there is an idiot
Thankyou for posting that. I get so sick and tired of people rolling over automatically in defense of corporations when someone sues them and wins with out first checking the actual facts of the case.
Furthermore, the poor old lady (she was in her 70s!!) only asked for reimbursement for medical costs (something like 15k). McDonalds flat out REFUSED to pay anything, which is why they got sued and then paid out millions of dollars as a punishment in forms of punitive damages.
It was a damn good case and not nearly as frivolous as the uninformed claim.
Didn't she put it in her lap?
I like thisEven a $25/hour lawyer should be able to completely refute the plaintiffs claims with the references cited in the wiki in about 3 hours.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pipe
The little guys need to get on the phone to one another and hire one lawyer to represent them all and counter sue the shit out of the law company that presented the case and complain to the CA bar. I bet American Technology, Inc does not have a pot to piss in.
http://nvsos.gov/sosentitysearch/CorpSearch.aspx
Off the top of my head, Canada, Germany, UK and New Zealand all have a "loser pays" system. Tort reform is proposed on an annual basis in the States, but lawyers make too much money in the current system so it gets shouted down right quick.In ancient Greece if the jury decided in the favor of the defendent they took a second vote to determine if the lawsuit was frivolous. If it was the plaintif had to pay a penalty and all legal costs. I see no reason we couldn't do the same thing here.
HALL PASS = In the business world = basically means we wont pay your for anything, but since you already do business with us, we will extend certain discounts to compensate for such details, aka newegg sells em discounted stuff in exchange for NOT filling copywrite agreements for money. Happens all the time under the table executive business.. Small fish personell are not usually privy to ever seeing these details, they just know x y z customer has a discount with them for items, never told its due to outsourced resonse aka infringement details, and the company infringed opon, looks the other way in order to get cheeper stuff for it, they pass on the law suit money to gain, cheeper parts so the cost eventually balances out, that they buy for thier business aka hall pass system.
Regardless of whether or not the patent is valid, they are going after the wrong people. While you're technically allowed to bring a lawsuit against retailers and consumers of a product that violates a patent, the judge isn't likely to let it fly. They'd have a better shot if they went after the manufacturers.
Furthermore, the poor old lady (she was in her 70s!!) only asked for reimbursement for medical costs (something like 15k). McDonalds flat out REFUSED to pay anything, which is why they got sued and then paid out millions of dollars as a punishment in forms of punitive damages.
It was a damn good case and not nearly as frivolous as the uninformed claim.
McDonalds paid out nowhere near "millions".
I suggest you go and read the results of the case as well as what followed.
might as well just buy something from them then
on second thought, it might still be wise cautionary move not to buy anything with heatpipes
and most cpu coolers do not,
A. use liquid