Xconomy has more great coverage of the iRobot vs. Robotic FX lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts, where we learn that the General Accounting Office issued a "stay" (how do they do that?) on the Robotic FX contract, but the trial continued. (thx, Microcapfun)
Apparently Robotic FX has tried to get the Army to indemnify Robotic FX against patent infringement (what an interesting precedent that would be!) and a bit more on the dealings between Robotic FX and the unnamed major defense contractor that is interested in buying this tiny company run out of a guy's dad's dentist's office (and basement).
There is also testimony from iRobot on just how damaging losing this contract would be (as I've already stated previously -- it is a disaster, no two ways about it! -- and $100-$200 million in market cap agrees with me.)
The more I read about the case -- and it took a while to go through the hundreds of pages from the previous post -- the more I am struck by the absolute absurdity of the situation. Young kid, supposedly ALMOST COMPLETELY ON HIS OWN, claims to have engineered an EOD robot that looks SHOCKINGLY like his former employer's patented robot that took thousands of man hours, if not hundreds of thousands of man hours, to develop. It reminds me of a really bad Ben Affleck movie where he plays an engineer who reverse engineers other people's technology. I can't remember the movie title, but I think the deal was that when it was over his memory was supposed to be wiped so he couldn't be ordered to testify in court or somesuch. Interesting the similarities with Jameel Ahed's selective memory about events that happened less than six weeks ago.
Also, who is paying Jameel's legal bills? They have to be piling up pretty fast.
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