Apple Made A Deal With The Devil (No, Worse: A Patent Troll) | TechCrunch
►http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/09/apple-made-a-deal-with-the-devil-no-worse-a-patent-troll
In both cases, Apple transferred ownership of the patent to a company called Cliff Island LLC, which in turn transferred it to Digitude Innovations. (...)
You probably haven’t heard of Cliff Island LLC, because it appears to exist in name only. There is a next to no information about the company available online — though the patent filing does include an address: 485 Madison Avenue, Suite 2300 in New York City.
(...)Put another way, #Apple appears to have transferred its patents to the #patent #troll Digitude, though it first routed them through a shell company that shares the same office as Digitude’s lead investor and Chairman.