On: Biggest patent troll of 2014 gives up, drops appeal

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Here's a patent that I feel is somewhat similar in it's obviousness and overly broad claims:

http://www.google.com/patents/US6361186

The litigation over this one shut down an entire functioning company and a lot of people lost their jobs. The companies that were sued by the patent holders provided "simulated neon" with products that did not resemble the diagrams in any way, other than the real general theme of "a translucent tube/rod/whatever backlit by LEDS such that it looked like neon".