Judge rules against Microsoft in MP3 patent case
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| Parallel to the jury's deliberations on the patents, Judge Rudi
| Brewster heard five separate defenses presented by Microsoft, and on
| Monday filed a ruling against four of them. Brewster wrote that
| "Lucent is the sole owner of the (MP3) reissue patents," and that
| "Microsoft is not entitled to any intervening rights."
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/judge-rules-against-microsoft-mp3/story.aspx?guid=%7BE2FF92C7%2D637B%2D4F44%2DA185%2DE4F166C4D04B%7D&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo
http://tinyurl.com/ynm3sn
Microsoft Says Alcatel Infringed Patents
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| Microsoft Corp. says French telecom equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent
| infringed on its patents for "unified communications" products, and
| the U.S. International Trade Commission on Tuesday voted to begin
| an investigation.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070320/microsoft_alcatel_lucent.html?.v=3
Here we go. Microsoft plays the patents card. Linux and Open Source win
nonetheless.
Related:
MP3's Loss, Open Source's Gain
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| Now, with a cloud over the de facto industry standard, companies that
| rely on MP3 may finally have sufficient motivation to move on. And
| that raises some tantalizing possibilities, including a real long
| shot: Open-source, royalty-free formats win.
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http://www.wired.com/news/culture/music/0,72785-0.html?tw=wn_technology_1
You can taste the irony of Microsoft's patent positions on MP3 and Linux
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| Just when fear enjoys a energetic caddy (Ballmer) on Microsoft's
| repeated foray into Linux legal uncertainty, a real law suit with
| real trial lawyers and a real jury ironically slaps down Microsoft
| as a potential world-record intellectual property (IP) infringer.
| Yup, Microsoft the purported victim of Linux, is in fact the major
| MP3 format predator, or so says the assemblage of 12 informed peers.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/?p=2419
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