It ain't over until the fat lady sings. IOW, I thoroughly expect that
award to be seriously whittled down - plus thoroughly appealed and so on
- before MS actually has to pay anything.
Vince Werber wrote:
What bothers me is there has been questions in the past over the
copyrights of the 'OGG'format also... were those issues ever resolved?
ANd let's face it... if MicroSOft got it bad... there is real blood in
the water here... and the sharks are everywhere...
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Thomas Vecchione wrote:
Personally I am encouraged by news like this. It brings us one step
closer to fixing the US patent system.
I am not certain I agree with you at all, unless you are trying to use
it as an example of how broken things get.
MS paid for rights from whom they thought owned the patent, as did
many others. While I personally think patents are in fact very
screwed up, this case seems even more screwed up as the people paid
have for quite some time been considered to have owned the patent and
should have applied.
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David
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