Thomas Edison was embroiled in a number of patent disputes.
For its part, Facebook may turn to Cooley Godwin Kronish, its legal counsel in a number of patent litigation cases, as its champion in the Yahoo fight.
Apple is involved in a number of patent disputes following the massive popularity of the company's flagship products the iPhone, iPad and MacBook among consumers.
The company, Oy Modilis, was founded in 1991 in Helsinki, and has a number of patents relating to this sort of thing.
The company adds that the transaction will also enable Usee to complete several other acquisitions of complementary companies in the VoIP space in the future, and subtly points out that Usee owns a number of patents in that fast-growing segment of the market.
"They are both very personable and very intelligent," said Trevor Blyth, who has been awarded a number of patents in conjunction with Mr. Khan.
These include the UK telco BT, which is suing and being sued by Google over a number of patents in both the UK and U.S. BT was referred to as a "patent privateer" at the time that the suits were getting filed in February 2013.
Nevertheless, company designer, John Frost applied for a number of patents in Canada, the UK and the U.S. that established the pivotal role that the Avrocar and related Avro experimental vehicles, made in the VTOL world.
Back in February of 2010, Microsoft applied for a number of patents related to touchscreen gestures on a tablet.
