Joe Mullin for Ars Technica:
Court documents unsealed this week reveal who’s behind FlatWorld, and it’s anything but typical. 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.
That’s almost too crazy to believe.
wow..
Hopefully this may lead to his disbarment leaving one less in the shark pool. I guess the firm has shown him the door and I wonder how much is this going to cost the firm if Apple gives them the boot?
Sigh…We need an anonymous service that tracks lawyers involved in patent trolling so entrepreneurs we can at least avoid their firms. We need those patent reforms, now!
Appropriate pseudonym you have there. Well done.
he can simply move to another state.
I don’t know. At this point, I’ll believe almost anything about a lawyer.
Something tells me if there hasn’t been one yet there will be a lawsuit filed by Apple real soon.
97% of lawyers make the rest look bad.
Given the $$$ at stake…this won’t be the last of the parasites in line…
Dang, your right, forgot about that. :^(