Patent Law

Kindled

By Gary Odom and Jordan Kuhn

Discovery Communications, parent of the Discovery Channel and Animal Planet, has asserted 7,298,851 against Amazon's Kindle electronic reader. '851 was filed in September 1999, a CIP, and issued November 2007. A goodly amount of cited art. The '851 claims are rather well drafted, with many various dependent claims, but are nonetheless open to obviousness attack. Owing to the popularity of the device, the press will be following what is otherwise a mundane case. Suit filed in Delaware, Discovery's home turf.

Decent coverage at cnet, though the writer is, as is apparent, a patent novice. More mysterious is Matt Buchanan fretting over whether Discovery is a patent troll. Lay off the religious Kool-Aid, Matt.

Full post as published by The Patent Prospector on March 18, 2009 (boomark / email).