On May 15, 8:04 pm, "ness...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
<ness...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Erik will be disappointed to note that contrary to his claims, according
> > to Ramji Microsoft *has* in fact used it's patents *offensively* twice
> > before, although Ramji did not elucidate any further.
>
> Well Erik may be a little embarrassed about that one, putting forth
> his claim that Microsoft would never, never sue anyone, only a few
> days before the latest threats of lawsuits. Obviously he's so far
> down on the organizational chart that he's out of the loop on
> everything.
It seems that IBM has no problem going to court with "very broad and
questionable patents" however.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070508/160900.shtml
"Amazon Pays IBM To Settle Pointless Patent Dispute"
Tue, May 8th 2007
Last year, we were a bit surprised to see IBM sue Amazon over some
very broad and questionable patents. After all, IBM has been going on
and on about the importance of a better patent system and doing away
with such bogus patent suits.
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