[ale] My Amiga Killed a Troll!

[Larry Johnson]

Wow!!! I assume this was the Acacia/IP Innovations patent troll.  I
did some scrounging through old ACM articles looking for prior art
early in the case.  While I didn't find any smoking guns it seems the
output was fantastic.

Larry

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 1:04 AM, Aaron Ruscetta <arxaaron at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just got home to find this email in my account...
>
> Apparently my habbits of being an eclectic collector of historic
> computer gadgetry** and my work in restoring a 1986 Amiga
> 1000 system to its multi-screen, muti-tasking glory as prior
> art evidence for a Red Hat Linux patent fight paid off:
>
>    My Amiga Killed a Troll!
>
> Credit also to Stephen Belvins for posting notice of the
> case on the ALE list.
>
> See links at end of message.
>
> Enjoy!
> peace
> aaron
> **(aka geeky tech junk hoarder)
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jalali, Neema <NJalali at gibsondunn.com>
> Date: Tue, May 11, 2010 at 6:38 PM
> Subject: Address for Amiga - and thank you
> To: Aaron Ruscetta <arxaaron at gmail.com>
>
> Hi Aaron,
>
> In case you have not heard, Red Hat and Novell won a complete jury verdict
> in the case for which you lent your Amiga.  During trial, one of our expert
> witnesses gave a live demonstration of the Amiga to the jury.  The jury
> ultimately found that the asserted patent claims were invalid, due to the
> Amiga and/or the two other prior art references we presented.
>
> I just wanted to thank you again for your help in lending us the Amiga and
> getting it to work.  We are grateful for your time and assistance.
>
> Now that the case is over, can you please let us know your address
> so that we can return the computer to you?
>
> Thanks,
> Neema
>
> Neema Jalali
>
> GIBSON DUNN
>
> Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
> 555 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94105-2933
> Tel +1 415.393.8258 • Fax +1 415.374.8409
> NJalali at gibsondunn.com • www.gibsondunn.com
>
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> Related Links:
>
> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/Jury-Decides-for-Red-Hat-Novell-in-Software-Patent-Lawsuit-874377/
>
> http://news.techworld.com/sme/3222399/novell-and-red-hat-defeat-linux-patent-lawsuit/
>
> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100430223358785
> http://www.groklaw.net/
> (@ Report from the Trial in IP Innovation v. Red Hat & Novell - Updated)
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