Date: 5 Aug 2012 04:58:00 -0000 From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: millenia2000@hotmail.com Subject: Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <20120805045800.29444.qmail@joyce.lan> In-Reply-To: <BAY165-ds37E52D779E383A3EB323ACACA0@phx.gbl>
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>> Out of curiosity has anyone ever heard of trolls patenting open source >> technologies after the fact? > >The prior art stipulations pretty much kills that off, unless they make a >genuine improvement/change to it to not qualify under that, then they would >be well within patent law to apply for a patent. The patent office has never been very good at examining software patents, and I have made a lot of money helping companies document the prior art not cited in patents that are being asserted against them. R's, John
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