”Technology Patents LLC may be the new champion for suing 131 companies worldwide—the list goes on and on, naming companies like Vodafone, Orange, T-Mobile, Telstra, AT&T, Cincinnati Bell, Motorola, Microsoft, Helio, Taiwan Mobile, O2, Rogers Wireless, China Resources Peoples Telephone Company, Yahoo, Sprint, and everyone in between. The company and its founder, Aris Mardirossian, are suing over what he believes to be infringement on two of his patents that address international text messaging.”

(Via U R SUED: Patent holding company targets 131 companies over SMS patents.)

Text messaging, while wildly popular, is a complete mess here in the states.

Being a U.S. business or trying to send text messages to U.S networks is already an expensive proposition. If this lawsuit succeeds it will only get more expensive.