Company suing Apple over iPhone 6 is nearly defunct: report
23 Jun 2016
A Chinese company name Shenzhen Baili Marketing Services Co last week successfully sued Apple for infringing, is a patent troll according to The Wall Street Journal.
According to a report by the WSJ, the company hardly even existed.
A patent troll is a person or company that seeks to enforce patent rights against infringers, exceeding the patent's actual value or contribution to the prior art.
Baili's parent company, Diogene, has not been in business for at least a year, and both Diogene and Baili, are now insolvent. But their sorry financial status has not deterred Diogene from pushing ahead with the lawsuit, claiming that Baili ''is still operational in its necessary functions.''
''The issue here is not whether Digione makes phones anymore," Baili's laywer told WSJ, ''but whether the iPhone 6 infringes on this patent.'' The company was also considering extending the lawsuit to include the iPhone 6s.
