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Patent Infringement Lawsuit Filed Against Red Hat and Novell - Just Like Ballmer Predicted (Groklaw)

Patent Infringement Lawsuit Filed Against Red Hat and Novell - Just Like Ballmer Predicted (Groklaw)

Posted Oct 13, 2007 22:26 UTC (Sat) by pjhacnau (subscriber, #4223)
In reply to: Patent Infringement Lawsuit Filed Against Red Hat and Novell - Just Like Ballmer Predicted (Groklaw) by ordonnateur
Parent article: Patent Infringement Lawsuit Filed Against Red Hat and Novell - Just Like Ballmer Predicted (Groklaw)

IIRC in the US you have 12 months of grace period after publication to file for a patent. That was (one reason) why you had the RSA patent in the US and nowhere else in the world.


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