G'day Rod,

In a msg on , Rod Speed wrote to Jeff Green:

JG>> What's that one all about and who's involved?

 RS> Its a very messy business on the fundamentals of just what is 
 RS> patentable and whether software qualifys. The short story is 
 RS> that the US Patent Office has accepted some for software, and 
 RS> that has produced a couple of very well publicised results. 
 RS> The MicroSoft/Stac suit on disk compression in DoubleSpace 
 RS> found that MS infringed a Stac patent on disk compression. 
 RS> Compton have also won on one involved with CDROMs.

Yes, I have heard some stuff about those cases. I wasn't taking too much
notice and the only reason I knew about MS vs Stac was the size of the
payout. I'll have to start and take more notice of these things. I thought
the Comptons one got thrown out.

Regards...Jeff
Internet: jgreen{at}sydgate.apana.org.au

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