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Cisco the target of wireless lawsuit (News.com)

Cisco the target of wireless lawsuit (News.com)

Posted Jun 24, 2004 15:38 UTC (Thu) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523)
Parent article: Cisco the target of wireless lawsuit (News.com)

It is rather the Forgent way that the SCO way.
(Forgent pretend to hold a patend related to the JPEG standard.
They tried to enforce it for the first time 16 years after the patend was granted.)


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Cisco the target of wireless lawsuit (News.com)

Posted Jun 26, 2004 5:24 UTC (Sat) by mkettler (guest, #3933) [Link]

Not to mention Rambus (patents on technology in DDR ram) and Unisys (the LZ compression patents affecting GIF files).

Unisys was very "stealth submarine" about it, waiting years.. Much like Forgent.

Rambus is probably the closest match overall to Cisco. Both were working with the standards bodies, both kept quiet during the process and both revealed their patents shortly after the standard was made.

The Rambus thing has gone back and forth in courts over a JEDEC policy on patent disclosure among participating members. I don't think IEEE has such a policy however.

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