On Wednesday 13 April 2005 12:08, Brian May wrote: > Joseph A. Caputo wrote: > > 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..)
Right; but somehow, I get the feeling that MS would be more likely to license the bogus patent than to try and overturn it, but that's just my gut feeling. -JAC _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
