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A busy week for the courts

A busy week for the courts

Posted Oct 8, 2004 14:15 UTC (Fri) by kfiles (subscriber, #11628)
Parent article: A busy week for the courts

It should be noted that an appeal in Kodak v. Sun won't be happening. Sun's settling the case, and paying for patent licensing:

http://tinyurl.com/4c3ct

We'll have to wait until the next time Kodak tries to extort money from someone for any software using remote invokation. Now, a smart person would be heading to the PTO to preemtively file a request for re-examination of these patents, a la PubPat's recent successful challenge of the VFAT patent.

    --kirby


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