Patent troll asks judge for gag order to silence opponent
Summary
When a patent-holding company called Lumen View Technology sued FindTheBest, a consumer research website, the reaction it was looking for was a quick $50,000 payout for its patent on "multilateral decision making." Instead, it ran into an entrepreneur willing to spend $1 million to stop it through a RICO lawsuit, and it found itself on the receiving end of a batch of tough publicity when FindTheBests CEO, Kevin OConnor, started talking to the press about his fight. And Wasserbauer wants more: he thinks FindTheBest should be forced to ask for corrections, and it should "remove from the Internet its prior media disclosures, blog posts, or press releases that disseminate this protected information." The motion and attached exhibits shed new light on Lumen Views claims that OConnor "harassed" the inventor of the patents, Eileen Shapiro, and may be guilty of a "hate crime." Wasserbauer expanded on his accusations: Seems your CEO hates "trolls" and made statements to that effect as well as multiple harassing phone calls to Eileen Shapiro, an inventor of the patent.
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