On Saturday 09 April 2005 13:12, Colin Smillie wrote:
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.
...but there are some big players now in the DVR market. It might be worth it for a big player like Comcast to get the patent overturned.
Like Microsoft and their Media Center? (i don't think Forgent is part of MS, but I could be wrong..)
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