On Apr 8, 2005 3:13 PM, Robert Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Patent No. 6,674,960 (The one in question, which relates to recording > to a hard-drive) was filed in 2002, that's 10 years after Hauppauge > make a system for doing so. Therefore Patent No. 6,674,960 is moot > under the terms of "Prior Art", if I recall correctly.
Not quite a mute point, the patent would still need to be over turned. Last I heard the average cost to over turn a patent was somewhere around $2M in legal fees, in most cases not replayable. It alot of smaller companies will be forced to pay a settlement rather than fighting. Some more details here: http://www.pubpat.org/Representing.htm _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
