http://www.fortune.com/fortune/print/0,15935,400412,00.html
INTERTRUST Can Victor Shear Bring Down Microsoft? Maybe not. But his company's patent suit is the biggest legal threat to Microsoft since the antitrust case. FORTUNE Tuesday, December 17, 2002 By Roger Parloff Imagine you had a nickel for every compact disc that's ever been made. The patent holders of the CD technology do have nearly all those nickels. Sony Corp. of America and Royal Philips Electronics get 3 cents for every CD manufactured, plus 3% of the price of every CD player sold. .. snip ...
