Swish! Nothin' but net!
8 of 8 in one fell swoop AND dismissed with prejudice? Now THAT is how to win a court case!
*Hits the floor LMAO*
Veeam has defeated two four-year-old legal challenges from Symantec, initiated before Symantec split from Veritas and its data protection software. Symantec claimed Veeam was infringing Symantec patents back in 2012. The big bad S referred to several patents in its claims: An '086 patent refers to a virtual machine backup …
"If all of these patents were shot down by the USPTO, why in the hell were they issued in the first place?"
The U.S. patent system is pretty broken right now, starting with the office. They were issued due to said office having collective rectal-cranial inversion.
Reform desperately needed.
Court confirms patents "were not patentable"
Step 1. Patents are resided.
Step 2. Any existing court cases referencing the same patents are amended to remove those claims (if other patents are still in dispute), or court case is dismissed fully if only resided patents were involved, with any costs automatically going against the organisation that raised the case.
Step 3. Any members of staff at the Patent Office who were involved in approving the patents, are re-trained, disciplined and/or sacked, as appropriate.
Step 4. All existing, and any new Patent requests from the same organisation (or any related to them) to have additional scrutiny applied, for a period of time determined by how serious the issue was (e.g. for the next 5 years, and assuming no further stupid requests are made (i.e. if a stupid request is made, the 5 years starts again)).
Just like a lot of big businesses do.
Patent everything even the stupid things as another business is bound to trip over them at some point. Then throw the sue-balls, see if any sue-balls stick and then make money.
Thankfully this way of operating has bitten Symantec in the butt (this time).