M·CAM, Inc. unveils new plans for Patently Obvious® and releases Patently Obvious® on Sprint Nextel Corp.

Date:  Mon, 2012-01-09

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – January 9, 2012 – M·CAM, Inc. unveils new plans for Patently Obvious® and releases its Patently Obvious® report on Sprint Nextel Corp.

With the start of the new year, M·CAM’s Patently Obvious® reports take on a new dimension. Each week of the month our reports will focus on one of three themes: (1) egregious patent prosecutorial behavior – including an in-depth critique of U.S. Patent Office patent examiners and their international counterparts; (2) hot off the press pronouncements of patent value that may or may not reflect reality; or (3) the anti-job, anti-business abuses of non-operating entities (aka trolls) that rob operating businesses of earned income and undermine the value of legitimate innovation harming our nation’s economy.

Following this format, this week we are focusing on the December 19 suits Sprint Nextel filed against Time Warner, Comcast and others for infringing their VoIP patents. In light of Sprint’s previous win against Vonage, we’d like to point out some deeper issues that Vonage failed to pursue, and suggest that the new defendants focus on fundamental ways in which the patent system allows this kind of litigious madness in the first place.

M·CAM’s Patently Obvious® is a weekly report providing visibility into potentially unconsidered alternatives, including art in the public domain, to patent holdings across a variety of technology areas.

M·CAM, Inc. is a global, full-service intellectual property and rights (IP&R) and intangible asset financial services firm. We provide the technical and financial systems that allow public and private markets to use IP&R and IA for regulated transactions in banking, securities, insurance, and public innovation investment and technology procurement. From our pioneering work in creating the world’s first standards-based innovation collateralization financial products for banking and securities to our work in grassroots innovator enablement and patent quality assurance programs, M·CAM provides the mechanism to balance the interests of public and commercial sectors to support and build thriving economies.

The M·CAM Patently Obvious® report on Sprint Nextel Corp. can be found HERE.