Re: If it was a valid patent
"He would have been better off sending this to the companies that build the major browsers that implemented the technology."
Indeed, and this is why I have very little sympathy for him. Even if he truly believed he had a genuine invention that was being unfairly exploited, he chose to go after a bunch of random small businesses that happened to be using a product instead of the people who actually made the infringing product. If Ford accuse Vauxhall of copying something in a car, you don't get to sue me for driving to the shops. Whatever the merits of the patent itself, there is no excuse for deliberately targeting people who had absolutely nothing to do with any infringement.