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Apple's patent attack

Apple's patent attack

Posted Mar 3, 2010 0:48 UTC (Wed) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955)
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"Object Technology Licensing Corporation" sounds like a vestige of Next Computer, as do many of these patents.


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Apple's patent attack

Posted Mar 4, 2010 0:45 UTC (Thu) by mrpippy (guest, #57134) [Link]

Object Technology Licensing actually isn't NeXT (NeXT is apparently still maintained as a wholly owned subsidiary of Apple, and owns its own patents).
Object Technology Licensing is the IP holding company that came out of Taligent (a Apple/IBM joint venture in the early '90s to build a new OS). When Taligent folded, IBM got the rights to the code, and Apple got the rights to the patents, now held by OTL Corp.

Apple's patent attack

Posted Mar 4, 2010 4:00 UTC (Thu) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955) [Link]

Since Taligent never shipped anything, this seems to make OTL a patent troll...

Apple's patent attack

Posted Mar 5, 2010 21:33 UTC (Fri) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

Oh, they shipped one thing: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=527980

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