Chip designer Rambus and German memory chip manufacturer Infineon today said that they have settled their long-running patent and licensing lawsuits.
(VirnetX often described as a patent troll because it makes almost all of its revenue from patent licensing and lawsuits).
VirnetX, which is commonly referred to as a troll because it makes almost of its revenue from patent licensing and lawsuits, has sued a number of tech companies over the past decade.
Providers had gone to prison, lost their licenses, faced lawsuits.
A similar service that MP3.com offered, without first getting licenses, attracted lawsuits by major record companies.
Businesses that failed to win licenses brought lawsuits seeking to open the program to more firms.
A second amendment — which would have indemnified county clerks who refuse to process the new licenses against lawsuits from irate drivers — met a similar fate.
When asked whether licenses or lawsuits were likely, Friendster President Kent Lindstrom told Red Herring.com "it's way too early to say…We'll do what we can to protect our intellectual property".
Its critics have said that NTP has consistently inflated the importance of its innovations and that it is the very model of a patent troll, a company that produces no product or service other than licensing demands and lawsuits.
The state, which issues liquor licenses, filed the lawsuit reluctantly, and has no quarrel with the tribe's efforts to regulate its members, said Gary Larson, a spokesman for Ms. Gregoire's office.
