Am 2009-08-12 15:11:42, schrieb Gene Heskett: > Distribution is probably the key word. I don't know how they think in a > legal > world, but what the judge meant was to stop the patent violation. > > IMO this patent will not, cannot stand. There is much prior art, some of it > has to be prior to the patent application. I can recall back in RH9 days > getting exasperated and freezing my own libxml version because every update > brought new problems, breaking seemingly unrelated apps just because the tool > they parsed their nameofprogram.rc file with was broken yet again.
Do you know that the patent with the number 5,787,449 is date 1994-06-02
and I am not realy sure, you will find much prior art... However, it is
very questionable, why l4i fille the lawsuit now and not for some years.
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
Michelle Konzack
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Tamay Dogan Network
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