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I was curious where Rackspace stands with their own portfolio, and it seems they have actually avoided patents, which surprised me somewhat for a large, public
by wheels 14y ago
I was curious where Rackspace stands with their own portfolio, and it seems they have actually avoided patents, which surprised me somewhat for a large, public company:
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=pts&hl=en&q=inassignee%3Arackspace&btnG= https://www.google.com/search?tbm=pts&hl=en&q=inassi...
The tone of the article -- specifically focusing on patent trolls being problematic, but less focus on the other systemic problems with the patent system -- made me wonder if they were just going after the cases that annoy them.
- kika 14y ago> going after the cases that annoy them. Perfect definition of "focus". One of the key components of success.
- dredmorbius 14y agoOne of the entities RS acquired was SGI. Whom I suspect may have had a patent portfolio. Not sure who got that though. Oh ... crap. Looks like they were retained by Graphics Properties Holdings, who is, you guessed it, a patent troll themselves: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120419/02113518553/sgi-back-dead-again-suing-tons-companies-patent-infringement.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120419/02113518553/sgi-ba...
- toddmorey 14y agoOops, Rackspace never acquired SGI. That acquisition was done by a company called Rackable Systems.
- dredmorbius 14y agoDoh! Thanks, I've been making that error for quite some time now. It never really did make sense to me that Rackspace == SGI, especially since they weren't using the mark at all.
- jamesmcn 14y agoMicrosoft bought out a large part of SGI's patent portfolio in the early XBox days. Then they sold the company to Rackable.
- dredmorbius 14y agoA bunch of the OpenGL stuff. Which has since been transferred at least in part to OIN: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/08/microsoft_sgi_patents_oin/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/08/microsoft_sgi_patent...