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Re: Verisign vs. ICANN

  • From: Dan Hollis
  • Date: Fri Sep 10 05:22:44 2004 
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Joe Rhett wrote:
> > On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Joe Rhett wrote:
> > > In short, if you want to make money selling your patent to someone then you
> > > must have a valid business that loses money so that your lawsuit against
> > > them will have teeth.
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 12:46:07AM -0700, Dan Hollis wrote:
> > So the attorney creates an IP holding company to which the patent is 
> > assigned, and the company offers to license the patent to Verisign. 
> > When Verisign refuses, they get sued for lost revenue.
> The holding company must be making money from the patent to demonstrate the 
> value of the loss.  It can't be a silent owner -- these have been fairly
> routinely tossed out of court as meritless.

Do you have an example of such a case?

-Dan