This is the latest in the series titled "NPE
Showcase," where we discuss high-volume non-practicing
entities (or as some call them, "patent trolls"). This
installment will focus on a company named Web 2.0 Technologies,
LLC.
Web 2.0 Technologies is similar to other NPEs, asserting two
patents against well-known companies for technology that has been
around since the turn of the millennium. The "infringing
products" include software that gathers and stores personal
information and preferences, then grants certain users access
rights to that information. Their cases last only a few months,
suggesting a cost-of-defense settlement that is the hallmark of
nuisance-based patent troll litigation.
