Thursday, January 3, 2013

Patent trolls want $1,000—for using scanners

I know that patent trolling happens, but this seems to be going a bit too far....


by - 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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