Patent Troll Case Going Forward in Vermont State Court

Via the Brattleboro Reformer (story here), patent aggregation entity MPHJ Technology Investments has lost what appears to be its final procedural effort to get out of Vermont state court.  

MPHJ is the defendant in a suit brought by the Vermont Attorney General in response to MPHJ's demand letters sent to "numerous" Vermont businesses.  MPHJ is trying to license its patent, described as covering "the process of emailing scanned documents."  

Apparently, the Vermont judge was not impressed by MPHJ's complaint that it would be burdensome to defend the case in Vermont, in view of their own demand letters, which threatened litigation in Vermont.

So, yeah.  That's pretty much a loser right there.