If you haven't clicked through, the confluence of huckers in this story is simply unbelievable:

Honestly, I wasn't sure how to begin this story or how to fit all the insanity into the title. It's a story involving patents, patent trolling, Covid-19, Theranos, and even the company that brought us all WeWork: SoftBank. Oh, and also Irell & Manella, the same law firm that once claimed it could represent a monkey in a copyright infringement dispute. You see, Irell & Manella has now filed one of the most utterly bullshit patent infringement lawsuits you'll ever see. They are representing "Labrador Diagnostics LLC" a patent troll which does not seem to exist other than to file this lawsuit, and which claims to hold the rights to two patents (US Patents 8,283,155 and 10,533,994) which, you'll note, were originally granted to Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos -- the firm that shut down in scandal over medical testing equipment that appears to have been oversold and never actually worked. Holmes is still facing federal charges of wire fraud over the whole Theranos debacle.

Has this story been noticed by any other media outlets? If this is all true, the parties involved deserve to be shamed into oblivion, but will need more attention for that to happen.

This is the equivalent of hoarding toilet paper, except in this case the toilet paper is a patent.

No. Hoarding toilet paper is a harmless, if annoying, way for panicking people to cope.

This is one of the most evil thing that's been attempted in months. I sincerely hope everyone involved on the suing side will get imprisoned under some emergency "don't fuck with healthcare in the middle of pandemic" law.