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Live By The Patent, Get Sued By The Patent
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| Brian writes in to let us know that a
| patent holding firm, with a long history
| of suing a bunch of big name tech firms is
| now suing Microsoft as well, claiming that
| every copy of Vista, Windows 7, and
| Windows Server 2008 violate its patent
| 6629163 on "Demultiplexing a First
| Sequence of Packet Components to Identify
| Specific Components Wherein Subsequent
| Components are Processed without Re-
| Identifying Components."
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091203/0903017177.shtml
Microsoft sued in patent spat
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| Founded in 2000 by Robert Handsaker and
| Gregory Rasin, Belmont, Mass.-based
| NetView Technologies Inc. is a business-
| software maker whose flagship product is a
| product designed to manage employee
| incentives by tracking sales, sales quotas
| and compensation. The companyâs software
| uses Microsoftâs widely popular Excel
| spreadsheet product.
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http://seattle.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2009/11/30/daily41.html
NetView files IP suit against Microsoft
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| A Belmont software company has filed suit
| today in U.S. District Court in Boston
| against Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT),
| claiming the Redmond, Wash.-based software
| giant infringed its patent on a business
| method for extracting data from
| spreadsheets.
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http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2009/11/30/daily68-NetView-files-IP-suit-against-Microsoft.html
Recent:
Apple sued for lack of originality
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| APPLE HAS BEEN SLAPPED with another lack of
| originality lawsuit, this time over its
| QuickTime movie player.
|
| Emblaze, which is a group of technology
| companies, claims that it owns a patent that
| describes a system for streaming media and
| that Quicktime infringes it.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1564691/apple-sued-lack-originality
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