After a slew of very depressing news about all manner of patent trolls slamming down on innovation wherever they can, all in the pursuit of greed, greed and greed, finally one has been pushed back a bit.

Red Hat has won a legal fight with a small Texas company that claimed the Raleigh-based software maker infringed on its patents.IP Innovation (a subsidiary of Acacia Technologies LLC, a well-know patent troll) sued Red Hat and another software company, Novell, over technology that involves sharing icons across computer workstations. But on Friday, a jury in federal court in Marshall, Texas, agreed with Red Hat and Novell that the patents were invalid.

Here’s hoping this is the first of many more of these verdicts to come. Maybe one day even the law makers will wake up to the malodorous practices by these bastards.

Via: Techdirt

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