SecurityPoint owns 6,888,460, "Advertising trays for security screening," which claims putting ads on security scanning trays. Coming soon as an airport greeting, not only will you be treated as a terrorist suspect, you'll be simultaneously assaulted with advertising during your little Spanish Inquisition. God bless America.

SecurityPoint crowed that its system had been extensively evaluated by the TSA with "proven results." TSA is offering a one-year pilot program to allow commercial advertising at passenger screening checkpoints. Airport operators get a cut from the ads.

Atlanta-based Adason, competitor to SecurityPoint, supposedly teamed with The Conner Group, which provides consultation on "media opportunities" at airports, and with airlines. Both Adason and The Conner Group are defendants. The Conner Group, hailing from Plano, Texas, allegedly represented Adason's On-The-Go™ Security Ads system as "patented," without saying by who. According to SecurityPoint, Adason doesn't have any patents for its On-The-Go™ products.

The complaint was filed March 12 in the Central Florida district court. Adason had put on a dog-and-pony show at the national airport revenue conference in Orlando, in February, as well as other trade shows.

Charges includes patent infringement (35 U.S.C §271), false patent marking (35 U.S.C §292), violations of the Lanham Act  (15 U.S.C §1125) for false advertising, common law unfair competition, and violation of Florida's law against deceptive and unfair trade practices; bad taste wasn't mentioned.

Damages and a permanent injunction are sought.