The Patent and Trademark Office invalidated a patent...
The Patent and Trademark Office invalidated a patent on smartphone screen rotation held by Rotatable Technologies, said Rackspace Vice President-Intellectual Property Van Lindberg in a Monday blog post (http://bit.ly/1wFYe6h). Rotatable Technologies had sued Rackspace for infringement of the patent, Lindberg…
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said. Instead of settling, Rackspace challenged the patent in an inter partes review at the PTO, a feature recently created after the 2011 passage of the America Invents Act (CD July 31 p9). “This means that Rackspace will not pay one penny to this troll, nor will Apple, Netflix, Electronic Arts, Target, Whole Foods or any of the other companies sued by Rotatable for how they use screen rotation technology in their apps,” Lindberg said. “Without changes in the law we believe that the only way to end the plague of patent trolls is by fighting every troll that comes at us -- and we encourage all others to do the same.” Patent law revamp efforts stalled in 2013 (CD May 23 p3). Rotatable didn’t comment.