PalTalk suing Microsoft for $90 million for copyright infringement

PalTalk........Seriously...?

all about those dead presidents

These lawsuits are getting increasingly tenuous. Can I sue someone for using my oxygen?

obvious patent troll is obvious. If I could turn $200,000 into $90,000,000 I might also go after Microsoft.

can i sue the kid who cut me in line at lunch this morning

Well they couldn't go with PalTalk since nobody who plays Halo online talks like pals.

They had to go with HateSpeak technology instead.

Fuck patent trolls.

"I'm gonna come up with an idea! And then, I'm gonna wait until someone else implements that idea in a better way than I ever could so I can make a profit by doing absolutely nothing!"

Sickening.

wow, MS using other people patents?? dont they have enough of their own???

you do know that violation of a patent is patent infringement, not copyright infringement, right?

What about this Interweb all those young whippersnappers are using? Doesnt that allow "controlling interactive applications over multiple computers"? And what about mobile phones, Wii, DS, PS3, PSP, Dreamcast, etc.?

Also I like how they pointed out how Microsoft said they "found the technology to be very valuable." All I can imagine is Microsoft sending over a Depression era gangster who says "nyah, that technology looks pretty valuable see. It'd be a shame if someone were to steal it"

This has SLIGHTLY more merit than most patent troll cases. Gamers might recall MPath's MPlayer service back in the late 90s. That said, I don't recall them doing anything unique that wasn't also seen in similar networks of the time like WON or TEN, so this is yet another parasite looking to feed on somebody more successful.

thats what MS gets for ripping ppl off KARMA is a B word.

Never even heard of PalTalk, but from reading that article, it looks like PalTalk is suing just 'cause Microsoft decided to work with someone else. They may as well be suing Nintendo, too.

Fuck fucking patents.

this is a waste of our fucking tax dollars. use the court system for something that has caused real injustice... not some lame attempt at sucking the blood from the successful companies

So... Anyone else for doing away with software patents? Anyone? I'm submitting a patent that deals with the create and use of "executables" using 1s and 0s in a electrical computational environment. I'll be freaking rich.

See?

Now THAT's the real trouble with Tribbles...

looks like M$ will have raise xbox live to pay off the lawsuit lol

Here's the difference with these two companies, one of them is a multi-billion dollar company that offers great services and products, and one I've never heard of before. What makes this "PalTalk" think they have any relevence within society? Hasn't online gaming been around for like, 10 years anyways? People have been having lan parties for years now. How does this company think they have any merit in this case? I predict an epic fail.

I just looked these tards up at PalTalk, they'll be lucky to come out of this lawsuit with their company intact.

Other than the fact that they loosely interpreted what their program does to include a description of what XBox Live games do, here is the full description of what their intellectual property does... it integrated video, chat, and audio into one program and allows the user to set up and maintain sessions, and it controls YahooIM, AIM, ICQ and other messenger programs. The company was formed in 1999, and their software uses Outlook (a windows program) to set up session times, and can only run on Windows.

Here is where the whole scam falls apart. There are tons of other companies who have been providing conference software which integrated audio, video, and messaging for years, why haven't they been suing them? On top of that this claim against Halo only covers one portion of what they are accusing Microsoft of, and as has been pointed out has been done for years by uber computer geeks without their software, Halo only actually provides an audio communication conduit, the video portion of the game is generated through a combination of external calculations and locally generated, and no text messaging occurs, mainly because in the time it takes you to text you could be shot dead 5 or 10 times. Simply looking at their business structure and future outlook they probably determined the only way they'll survive is a quick settlement or pay out from a big company in a related field... Microsoft.

I'm a Nintendo fan, but this is wrong no matter who's getting the butt of it. I know how we can solve this...

Patent Scalper Prevention Act

All patent infringement claims without schematic paperwork and/or an operational demonstration model at the time the infringement occured shall be ignored without exception.

Itty bitty paltalk (never even heard of them) vs Microsoft? Another small ass company looking to make a quick buck, that will fail miserably because MS's legal team could probably give legal advice to Jesus Christ himself at this point.

Even if MS did steal it (which im doubting, but I havent researched it enough), its like a penguin going into a polar bear's home demanding its fish back. Dead fucking bird...

All these lawsuits suits against MS, Sony & NTO always turn to BS & shit so don't worry.... People these days. That's why I won't help an injured person on the. street... I could be framed or sued from any corner. TRUTH!!!! I'd call 911 no more lol....Sorry i've heard alot of shyt

Actually some of these suits win, or get settled, though the last one MS settled on (about rumbles on the controller), they did some manuvering to come out ahead by getting a slice of the money from Sony when they settled. Nintendo's still trying to fight the case though, last I heard.

These types of patents though I do not respect. Patents on processes, gestures, and the like are just plain stupid. What if someone had a patent on 2 or more computers sending data through a wired or wireless connection? Wow like that took a lot of though to think of? And we'd have no networks, internet or online gaming because we'd have to pay some turdball massive sums for being the first to the patent office to claim it.

I'm all for patents for INVENTIONS. This isn't an invention.

"The trial is set to take place in a U.S. District Court in Marshall, Texas"

So in other words, someone is going to death row.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBAND

sounds like a "controlling interactive applications over multiple computers" device to me...

You clearly have no understanding of IP law. First, as someone pointed out, since this involves patents, its patent infringement, not copyright infringement. Second, there is no way a "verdict" will be coming out in the coming weeks... unless you stretch the phrase "coming weeks" to mean in the next 100 to 200 weeks, since even in the rocket docket of the Eastern District of Texas, this case will take a couple years to get to trial and a verdict. But hey, why worry about "facts" when you can just complain about the patent system, right?