Ganesha Bhaskara wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OR M$ may have IP included from others, therefore would not fully
release it; it may become public knowledge that they also use IP from
other patents. Keep you too scared to ask if you contravene, even too
intimidated to try to use it, in stead of stating what exactly they
regard as patented. It's all intentionally kept open to
interpretation by their legal office ...
Al
Does this make MSFT's patent position MUCH stronger ? When the
document format was closed, (legally challengeable) reverse
engineering for interoperability argument could be made for as far as
patents were concerned. Now that the .doc spec is open legally
interoperability is a non-issue unless proved otherwise. Does this put
MSFT is a stronger position to enforce its office file format related
patents ?
Reverse engineering in a clean room protects against copyright, not patents.
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