» United States Patent Application: 0080270152 – an application to patent patent trolling
Claims
- A method for a non-inventor first party to acquire and assert a patent property against a second party, the method including the first party performing the following acts:obtaining an equity interest in the patent property;writing a claim within the scope of the patent property, the claim being written to cover a product of the second party, where the product includes a secret aspect, the secret aspect including an unobservable aspect, where writing the claim includes performing research using a computer to convert the unobservable aspect to an observable aspect;filing the claim with a patent office;offering a license of the patent property to the second party after the patent property issues as a patent with the claim; andattempting to obtain a monetary settlement from the second party based on the assertion of infringement of the claim.
(via Jonathan Schwartz)
