Re: Patent issues
On Feb 19, 2004, at 04:09, Roland Stigge wrote:
We don't know if the patent holder enforces the named patents next
week.
No, we don't. But we do know that in the past, Unisys has been very
active in enforcing its LZW ("GIF") patent. We assume that a patent
holder who has previously litigated or even threatened litigation is
far more likely to sue in the future.
I think many of those absurd patents would never actually be used
(except, perhaps, as part of a "don't sue us, because we'll sue you
worse" defense). We really don't have to worry about those. As you're
no doubt well aware, if we did, we'd just have to give up. You can't
write 'hello world' without infringing stupid patents.
Thankfully, Unisys haven't (yet) heard of the evil tricks one can do to
make his patents last much longer than allowed by law. (See recent
issues of Scientific American for examples).
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