[News] Microsoft Sues Over Intellectual Property

[Roy Schestowitz]

Microsoft slaps peripherals manufacturer with lawsuit

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| Microsoft filed a patent infringement claim against peripherals maker
| Belkin on Tuesday...
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http://news.com.com/2110-1041_3-6101024.html?part=rss&tag=6101024&subj=news

Should Mozilla, Opera, Apple and many others go ahead and sue Microsoft for
imitation? Or antitrust? Microsoft is above the law, unless the law suits
it.

[Erik Funkenbusch]

This is interesting, since to my knowledge, this is the first time
Microsoft has ever initiated a patent lawsuit. Note, however, that this is
a hardware patent, not a software one. I won't be concerned unless they
start initiating software patent litigation.

[Jim Richardson]

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And in that event, you'd no doubt find some other reason to be
unconcerned...

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Jim Richardson http://www.eskimo.com/~warlock
Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris.
<If Caesar were alive, you'd be chained to an oar.>

[Sinister Midget]

On 2006-08-02, Erik Funkenbusch <er...@despam-funkenbusch.com> posted something concerning:

Blinders are soooooooooooooooo you.

No 'unless' about it. The word I believe you were looking for was
'when'.

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Qdens: Innovative Microsoft peer-to-peer software.

[Freeride]

On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 23:30:13 -0500, Erik Funkenbusch wrote:

> This is interesting, since to my knowledge, this is the first time
> Microsoft has ever initiated a patent lawsuit.

I am sure once revenues start falling they will be suing everyone!!