How Yahoo won the Bedrock patent trial that Google lost (Thomson Reuters) [LWN.net]

How Yahoo won the Bedrock patent trial that Google lost (Thomson Reuters)

Posted May 15, 2011 4:58 UTC (Sun) by BrucePerens (guest, #2510)
In reply to: How Yahoo won the Bedrock patent trial that Google lost (Thomson Reuters) by wahern
Parent article: How Yahoo won the Bedrock patent trial that Google lost (Thomson Reuters)

A while back I helped prove to a judge that Open Source developers do suffer real economic damage from license violations and can claim more than statutory damage. But the issue is probably moot in this case, when Bedrock says it's "their" code they are only talking about the patent.

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How Yahoo won the Bedrock patent trial that Google lost (Thomson Reuters)

Posted May 16, 2011 13:41 UTC (Mon) by butlerm (subscriber, #13312) [Link] (1 responses)

Bedrock doesn't own any "code" here though. They have a government granted monopoly on an algorithm. Claiming to own someone else's code is a fraud. If it were my code, I would be inclined to sue them for slander of title, especially since trivial changes are probably all that would be necessary to escape their patent dragnet.

How Yahoo won the Bedrock patent trial that Google lost (Thomson Reuters)

Posted May 16, 2011 14:17 UTC (Mon) by Trelane (guest, #56877) [Link]

> They have a government granted monopoly on an algorithm.

s/\./ and any implementations thereof./

HTH.