I know that patent trolling happens, but this seems to be going a bit too far....
by Joe Mullin - Jan 2 2013, 10:30pm MPST
When Steven Vicinanza got a letter in the mail earlier this year informing him that he needed to pay $1,000 per employee for a license to some “distributed computer architecture” patents, he didn’t quite believe it at first. The letter seemed to be saying anyone using a modern office scanner to scan documents to e-mail would have to pay—which is to say, just about any business, period.
If he'd paid up, the IT services provider that Vicinanza founded, BlueWave Computing, would have owed $130,000.
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