Eolas, the grandaddy of patent trolls, has its ass handed to it by a court, finally

One thing I fail to understand is how the same people were able to get more than one patent on the same idea. There’s a patent issued in 2011 (based on multiple continuations of an application dating back all the way to the 1990s) on the same basic idea as the original 1990s patent; very convenient to the inventor/troll to have a new patent issued just when the original one is getting ready to expire.

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