[gsb]

Uniloc sued Mojang (makers of Minecraft), which is a Swedish company. In Texas of course.

Mojang is bigger than many small companies, but is still quite small.

[kintamanimatt]

Thank you for pointing this out! I've actually been trying to find an example of a patent troll suing a foreign corporation that doesn't have offices in the US. This lawsuit does appear to be very rare and exceptional, and here's the complaint: http://notch.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/mojang.pdf

I wonder whether they'd have actually been successful had they not withdrawn. It seems a bit strained that they claim they're doing business in Texas.

[sergiotapia]

That is just god damn disgraceful. http://www.google.com/patents/US6857067

"System and method for preventing unauthorized access to electronic data"

What in the world is going on with the US patent system that things like this are emitted.

[gsb]

What makes you say that the suit was withdrawn? I can't find confirmation of that anywhere.

[kintamanimatt]

Apologies, I think I'm wrong. I appear to have misread or misremembered what I read.