On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 17:48:51 -0500 JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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 > > God bless America
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