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The Legal System as a Marketing Tool via Patent Infringement Shakedown Lawsuits: Patent Troll VirnetX Gives Apple a Dose of Its Own Patent Litigation Medicine

New editor-in-chief Dan Lyons at ReadWrite.com (formerly ReadWriteWeb) headlines that Apple Gets A (Minor) Legal Spanking as a federal court in Dallas, Texas has ruled that Apple infringed videoconferencing software of patent troll VirnetX.

Lyons writes inter alia:

"The real lesson to this and all of the other Apple-related cases is that the patent system is ridiculous and has become an obstacle to innovation, one whose ultimate victims are customers."

Read the whole thing here.