Y'all need to help spread the word: Patent troll sues to block manufacture of Covid-19 tests

[konceptjones]

SoftBank Owned Patent Troll, Using Monkey Selfie Law Firm, Sues To Block Covid-19 Testing, Using Theranos Patents

Honestly, I wasn’t sure how to begin this story or how to fit all the insanity into the title. It’s a story involving patents, patent trolling, Covid-19, Theranos, and even the company …

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This is the kind of shit people need to be made aware of. This shit needs to be on the evening news across the country, if not the world.

The judge needs to dismiss this shit without even reading it.
The law firm representing the plaintiff needs to be shut down and all lawyers involved needs to be disbarred for life.
The plaintiff itself, Labrador Diagnostics LLC and its entire executive staff needs to be brought up on criminal charges.

Somebody needs to die as a result... Starting with the CEO or President of the company.

 

[Chicity]

Cliff notes my guy

 

[konceptjones]

Cliff notes my guy

Chick makes company
Company is fraudulent, can't deliver on claims and folds. (chick, her husband, and others now facing criminal charges)
Other company steps in and buys patents from chick and her company.
Other company makes shell company to hold patents
Coronavirus happens
Test kits for coronavirus are manufactured to cover shortages
Shell company retains law firm to start suing companies making Coronavirus test kits, claims it violates patents it now owns.
Case is now in front of a judge.

 

[SneakDZA]

Chick makes company
Company is fraudulent, can't deliver on claims and folds. (chick, her husband, and others now facing criminal charges)
Other company steps in and buys patents from chick and her company.
Other company makes shell company to hold patents
Coronavirus happens
Test kits for coronavirus are manufactured to cover shortages
Shell company retains law firm to start suing companies making Coronavirus test kits, claims it violates patents it now owns.
Case is now in front of a judge.

Sounds like The American Dream

 

[Muad'Dib]

Capitalism at it's finest

 

[DOS_patos]

is she related to that pharma bro dude?

see how it was funny at first until it hits home.

 

[Chicity]

JBP spoke on the the Gates being the company that holding the patents

 

[konceptjones]

Well that was quick:

Softbank-Owned Patent Troll Now Promises To Grant Royalty-Free License For Covid-19 Tests; Details Lacking

Yesterday I wrote up a fairly insane story about how a Softbank-owned patent troll, Fortress Investment Group, through a shell company subsidiary, Labrador Diagnostics (which, despite its name, doe…

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Yesterday I wrote up a fairly insane story about how a Softbank-owned patent troll, Fortress Investment Group, through a shell company subsidiary, Labrador Diagnostics (which, despite its name, does not seem to do any diagnostics), using patents that it had bought up from the sham medical testing company Theranos during its fire sale, had sued BioFire Diagnostics/BioMerieux, one of the few companies making a Covid-19 diagnostics test, claiming patent infringement. The patent infringement claims were on all of its diagnostics created using BioFire's FilmArray 2.0, FilmArray EZ, and FilmArray Torch devices -- and the company's Covid-19 tests were based on that technology. Even worse, the company asked the court to issue an injunction, blocking BioFire from using the tests. As we pointed out, this was not just tone deaf, but destructive and dangerous.

This morning, hours after our article went viral, Labrador Diagnostics issued a press release claiming that once it became aware that BioFire was working on Covid-19 tests, it had offered the company a royalty-free license on those tests (and only those tests):

-Labrador Diagnostics LLC (“Labrador”) today announced that it will offer to grant royalty-free licenses to third parties to use its patented diagnostics technology for use in tests directed to COVID-19. Labrador fully supports efforts to assess and ultimately end this pandemic and hopes that more tests will be created, disseminated, and used to quickly and effectively protect our communities through its offer of a royalty-free license during the current crisis.

Guess they came to their senses.

 

[CeLLar-DooR]

John Oliver episode on patent trolls was very informative