Macromedia's defence has always been that the patent was invalidly
issued, and that it's unenforceable. Because they didn't reveal in their
patent application "Prior Art" which is a patent term I believe refers to
previous examples of the patented technology.
If Macromedia's defence holds, Adobe could well find themselves facing a
patent infringement suit from the other side. It could turn out the
first
designer of the tear-off tabs in the unix world wants royalties on all the
copies of Photoshop and Illustrator etc.
As always, we watch agog while the titans battle it out, making no one but
the lawyers rich.
Cheers,
Mike Kear
AFP Web Development
Windsor, NSW, Australia
On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Jeremy Allen wrote:
> I have been following this and it really seems to be a paper-thin
> lawsuit that is basically seeing if Adobe has a defendable patent
> or not.
>
> They are suing over "tearable tabs" where you can click on a tab
> and drag it off the dialog it is on etc. Or you can drag it to
> new dialogs to create your own custom dialogs. the only problem
> is this has been in the Unix world since before Photoshop existed
> just about. At least since the very very early 90's OpenStep has
> had this, and I know for certain certain parts of Visual Studio
> have this feature.
>
> I am not sure exactly what product Adobe is suing Macromedia for
> using this patened 'technology'. Patents like that are just
> not ground breaking software patents. However... they do pose
> a very bad threat to us.
>
> Amazon gets away with One-Click
> shopping. claiming they spend millions in research for this
> when Its kind of like a logical procession of a shopping site
> to store most of the clients data behind the scenes.
>
> Patents like this threaten the well being of software as a
> whole.
>
>
> Jeremy Allen
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> -----Original Message-----
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>
> For your reading pleasure:
>
> http://www.pcworld.com/pcwtoday/article/0,1510,18000,00.html
>
> and
>
> http://www.i-us.com/graphicallyspeaking/
>
> Katie
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