The Esignature Post

I was browsing the internet recently and found that a couple of Esignature providers have ended up in the crosshairs of a company that provides guaranteed email delivery services.  Rpost recently announced that they are suing RightSignature and RightSignature customer Farmers Insurance as well as Docusign for violating Rpost patents related to guaranteed email delivery.

Rpost clearly spends a lot of money  protecting their IP as you can see from this page featuring all of the infringement suits in process.  If you look a little harder you can find even more, one of the companies that isn’t listed but was also sued in East Texas is Amazon.com.

These lawsuits also show the mythical status that East Texas courts have for patent lawuits.  RightSignature (Santa Barbara), Farmer’s Insurance (Los Angeles) and Rpost (Los Angeles) all have their principal place of business within a couple of hours of each other, so why have a trial in East Texas?

This tactic is so common that a local Tyler Texas directory site even has a post on it: East Texas and Patent Trolling.   Isn’t the US patent system grand?

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