Text 4701, 55 rader
Skriven 2005-06-07 23:26:56 av Adam Flinton (1:379/45)
   Kommentar till text 4700 av Mike '/m' (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: Microsoft stole another patent
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From: Adam Flinton <adam@NOSPAM_softfab.com>

Maybe they only owned the copy & not the content?

Adam


Mike '/m' wrote:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/07/microsoft_pays_excel_man/
>
>
> ===
> Microsoft loses Excel patent case
>
> Microsoft has been found guilty of patent infringement and ordered to
> pay a Guatamalan inventor Carlos Armando Amado almost $9m in damages.
>
> The US District Court of Central California court ruled that Microsoft
> had infringed on his intellectual property and ordered it to pay him
> $8.96m.
>
> This figure relates to software sold between March 1997 and July 2003 -
> Judge David Carter may review this figure to include software sold since
> 2003, according to Reuters. Damages are far lower than the $500m claimed
> for because the jury rejected nine out of ten claims made by Amado.
>
> Microsoft expressed disappointment at the verdict but welcomed the
> rejection of Amado's huge damages claim. The company said its engineers
> started work on the data transfer technology independently before Amado
> approached them.
>
> In 1990 Carlos Armando Amado filed a patent for software which helped
> transfer data between Excel spreadsheets and Microsoft's Access database
> using a single spreadsheet. He said he tried to sell this technology to
> Microsoft in 1992 but they turned him down. According to Amado,
> Microsoft started including his software in their releases between 1995
> and 2002.
>
> Microsoft is facing patent claims over Longhorn, the next version of
> Windows, from networking company Alacritech. Its lawyers are also due in
> court with Forgent Networks which claims the software giant infringed
> its JPEG picture compression patent. R
> ===
>
>
> Perhaps Rich Shupak should be lecturing his employer instead of Geo. and
> me....
>
>
>  /m
>
>

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