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The patents

The patents

Posted Aug 7, 2003 20:01 UTC (Thu) by rise (guest, #5045)
In reply to: The patents by jbh
Parent article: A brief look at IBM's counterclaims

Looks like IBM decided to cherry-pick four from all over their portfolio (SCO has got to be violating hundreds) that are largely unrelated.  This means SCO will have to fight four almost completely unrelated patent battles, and the LZ compression claim is probably so widespread in their code that they've got no hope of winning it.


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