On Microsoft's patent claims
On Microsoft's patent claims
Posted May 17, 2007 17:39 UTC (Thu) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)In reply to: On Microsoft's patent claims by i3839
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Patents aren't like trademarks. For trademarks, you can lose it if you don't enforce it. With patents, there isn't a time limit.
On the other hand, it is very frequent that when a patent holder sues someone for infringement, the patent itself gets thrown out.
Posted May 17, 2007 18:06 UTC (Thu)
by AJWM (guest, #15888)
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Actually there is, but the limit kicks in starting when the patent holder knows about the infringement. If he doesn't do anything about it for a given amount of time (I believe it's six years), then his inaction can be taken as an implicit license. (See also "doctrine of laches".)
> With patents, there isn't a time limit.On Microsoft's patent claims