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On Wednesday 09 February 2005 11:14 pm, you wrote:
Neil Williams wrote: | "The patent was intended to only apply to printhouses but it isphrased and was| granted on the CLAIMS and therefore could be used to extract punitivefees| wherever a print manager is installed."
It couldn't be used for that purpose, because there was extensive prior art, and the lawyers would die laughing.
OK, this time it's a print manager, maybe KDE and Gnome would join with the FSF to fight the case in court - I'm quite sure the holders of the patent will be able to pay their own lawyers enough that they'll be able to keep a straight face in court. What about next time?
What is sad here is a company spent good money paying for a worthless bit of paper, can't help feeling the legal department was striving to justify their head count, or some such.
We know it's worthless, they obviously want a return on the 'investment'. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.dcglug.org.uk/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/isbnsearch/ http://www.neil.williamsleesmill.me.uk/ http://www.biglumber.com/x/web?qs=0x8801094A28BCB3E3
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