Subject: Microsoft's Patent Problem
From: Stanley Long (slong@customcpu.com)
Date: Thu Jul 24 2003 - 08:22:59 AKDT
Fortune.com - Technology -
Tuesday, July 22, 2003
By Roger Parloff
"Microsoft suffered utter defeat at a crucial pretrial hearing in what
appears to be the highest-stakes patent litigation ever—one in which a
tiny company called InterTrust Technologies claims that 85% of
Microsoft's entire product line infringes its digital security patents."
<http://www.fortune.com/fortune/technology/articles/0,15114,466180,00.html>
... But in her July 3 ruling, an Oakland judge resolved 33 of 33
disputed issues against Microsoft and rebuked the company's lawyers for
wasting her time by promising proof that never materialized— ,,,
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