{"id":9291,"date":"2011-04-08T18:33:22","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T18:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/first_the_unabomber_and_now_steve_jobs.html"},"modified":"2011-04-08T18:33:22","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T18:33:22","slug":"first-the-unabomber-and-now-steve-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/first-the-unabomber-and-now-steve-jobs.html","title":{"rendered":"First the Unabomber and now Steve Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know you may have bad luck when you open up a package which was mailed by unabomber Ted Kaczynski and smoke starts to come out of it followed by a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yaledailynews.com\/news\/2007\/jan\/29\/unabombers-act-still-affects-prof-gelernter\/\">flash<\/a>. Yale Professor David Gelernter survived a horrific attack from the deranged madman and the good news is the company he co-founded won a settlement for patent infringement from Apple worth $625M.<\/p>\n<p>A happy ending to a terrible story right?<\/p>\n<p>Not quite&#8230; Today TMCnet <a href=\"http:\/\/legal.tmcnet.com\/topics\/legal\/articles\/162412-judge-overturns-625-million-award-against-apple.htm\">reported<\/a> that the settlement was overturned and instead of having to pay $625M, Apple would have to pay a total of zero. This is an unusual occurrence <a href=\"http:\/\/technews.tmcnet.com\/news\/2011\/04\/07\/5431340.htm\">according to<\/a> Southern Methodist University law professor Bill Dorsaneo, overturning a verdict like this and eliminating instead of reducing the amount of an award is unusual.<\/p>\n<p>This is a story of pretty bad luck it seems and the professor has vowed to fight on. Heaven knows this poor man has been through worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know you may have bad luck when you open up a package which was mailed by unabomber Ted Kaczynski and smoke starts to come out of it followed by a flash. Yale Professor David Gelernter survived a horrific attack from the deranged madman and the good news is the company he co-founded won a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,1673,118],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}