alt Hacker News>EFF and two other patent reform groups filed a brief in support of the judge’s investigation.
Nice, it's this kind of involvement in more obscure technical, but very real issues that make me an EFF member.
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It does seem very odd that "someone" can just claim ownership, file a lawsuit, and someone else has to defend themself in the face of a masked accuser whose motives, funding ... and even their own claimed ownership is so obscure that you can't effectively question it.
Good for the judge here for being curious and recognizing this conundrum.
>It does seem very odd that "someone" can just claim ownership, file a lawsuit, and someone else has to defend themself in the face of a masked accuser whose motives, funding ... and even their own claimed ownership
That fact pattern is absolutely not normal. That's why this raised so many eyebrows and actually got looked into.
Edit: Lawsuits invariably establish "who" the plaintiff is and their relationship to the defendant because this is almost always a byproduct of determining that they have and the extent to which they've been (allegedly) wronged by the defendant's actions.