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Apparently the thing to do these days is to file a patent early, wait until competing companies are extremely popular, and then sue the hell out of them.  That’s what NTP’s stance was against RIM (Blackberry), and that’s Intertainer’s stance now.  Intertainer filed a patent in 2001 (granted in 2005) that according to BusinessWeek, “outlines the business model for offering video content from various providers to consumers over the TV and the Internet.” It’s not clear how this relates to Napster, but we’re assuming there’s some other vague language in there that makes the suit legit...or they’re just trying to sqeeze money out of another giant.  We’ll have to wait and see how this one unfolds.

Read [BusinessWeek] Via [Engadget]

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