The morning that Michael Risch inserted himself into the battle between a Fortune 100 company and the man known as the "father of the iPod" began like any other, with a wake-up call from his six-year-old son. Risch, a professor of intellectual-property law at Villanova University, padded to the kitchen of his suburban Philadelphia home and — in a move that his wife hated — joined his family at the... More >>>
Craig Hockenberry's Iconfactory had to cough up a settlement to patent-troll Lodsys: "Everybody focuses on the percentage of money that was spent to license the patent. To me, that's actually less damaging than what's done to your spirit."