Quote: "Europe, are you watching? FT.com has the jaw-dropping story about European futures exchanges, brokers and traders preparing for patent infringement claims from Trading Technologies, a US software company, natch, located in Chicago -- where else? -- which has hit on what it appears to view as a pot of gold for itself by obtaining two patents on its MD Trader software product in August of 2004, patents it is now aggressively enforcing. It settled [PDF] two patent infringement cases [PDF] already, under circumstances some are questioning, for some licensing dough, and it is currently suing eSpeed, the electronic arm of Cantor Fitzgerald. eSpeed just had one of its patents ruled invalid in a patent infringement lawsuit it brought in July of 2003, after getting the patent in May, so it's been playing the patent game too. Game? It's like musical chairs. You may also recall eSpeed's Wagner patent. And they say *Linux* needs to grow up.
TT has suggested to the four main futures exchanges ___- two in Chicago and two in Europe, Euronext.Liffe and Eurex ___- that they should cross its palm with silver to keep it from launching patent infringement lawsuits against them." Link: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050223205453141 Just what Capitalists love to do, sit around doing absolutely nothing and watch the money roll in. -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 17:46:08 up 6 days, 19:48, 10 users, load average: 1.35, 1.41, 1.36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don't tell them anything." -- Hunter S. Thompson
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