Yes, listing 235 numbers is turr'ble hard work

Yes, listing 235 numbers is turr'ble hard work

Posted Jun 1, 2007 3:25 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)
In reply to: Yes, listing 235 numbers is turr'ble hard work by felixfix
Parent article: OSBC: The Microsoft/Novell panel

Industry custom; sorry. Physical products have patent numbers listed on the packaging and on the product itself. What makes software so special?

They don't label software with the patents it uses like they do physical products?

It doesn't matter, though, because this is not the industry custom the Microsoft lawyer referred to. He referred to a custom of not publicly announcing specifically which products you suspect of infringing which of your patents (presumably in spite of the fact that you publicly announce that you have such suspicions) until you're ready to do something about it. (I don't think anyone cares which Microsoft products use which Microsoft patents).

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