wraggster
June 8th, 2013, 21:58
When a company called FlatWorld Interactives LLC filed suit against Apple just over a year ago, it looked like a typical 'patent troll' lawsuit against a tech company, brought by someone who no longer had much of a business beyond lawsuits. Court documents unsealed this week reveal who's behind FlatWorld, and it's anything but typical (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/06/apple-betrayed-by-its-own-law-firm/). FlatWorld is partly owned by the named inventor on the patents, a Philadelphia design professor named Slavko Milekic. But 35 percent of the company has been quietly controlled by an attorney at one of Apple's own go-to law firms, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius. E-mail logs show that the attorney, John McAleese, worked together with his wife and began planning a wide-ranging patent attack against Apple's touch-screen products in January 2007—just days after the iPhone was revealed to the world."
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/13/06/08/1517244/the-strange-history-of-apple-and-flatworld
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/13/06/08/1517244/the-strange-history-of-apple-and-flatworld