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Meet the nice-guy lawyers who want $1,000 per worker for using scanners

Posted by BernardSwiss on · 5 comments
Ars Technica; By Joe Mullin 		Mail this story
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Starting late last year, hundreds of US businesses began to receive demand letters from secretive patent-holding companies with six-letter gibberish names: AdzPro, GosNel, and JitNom. The letters state that using basic office equipment, like scanners that can send files to e-mail, infringes a series of patents owned by MPHJ Technologies. Unless the target companies make payments—which start at around $9,000 for the smallest targeted businesses but go up from there—they could face legal action.

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Comments (5)

tharik ·
Oh, yeah. They are a patent troll!
gus3 ·
Any bets that the Federal Trade Commission is paying attention?

My money is on "no".
BernardSwiss Story submitter ·
I hadn't realized that "nice-guy" was the current euphemism for "psychopath" or "sociopath".
Bob_Robertson ·
"Lawyer" needs no further denunciation.
JaseP ·
Hey,... Hey,... Hey,... Bob,... Dino and I would take exception to that comment...

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