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Microsoft Patent Too Close to IPv6, Lawyers Say | |
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| Time: 06:08 EST/11:08 GMT | News Source: eWeek | Posted By: Chris Hedlund | ||
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Lawyers for the Public Patent Foundation and the Software Freedom Law Center are scrutinizing a patent held by Microsoft for which, one lawyer told eWEEK.com, Microsoft failed to disclose prior work done by the Internet Engineering Task Force. "This patent has been called to the attention of the free world, including the Public Patent Foundation," said Eben Moglen, a professor of law at Columbia University and a founding director of the Software Freedom Law Center, an organization that provides legal representation and other law-related services to protect and advance free and open-source software. "We are aware that the patent should not have issued in view of the prior art available to the patent office but not cited by Microsoft in its application," Moglen said. The patent in question, USP 6101499, filed in 1998 and issued in 2000, concerns automatic generation of IP addresses to facilitate simple network connections. | ||
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| #1 By 15406 (216.191.227.90) at 3/23/2005 9:23:19 AM |
| Typical MS. Join a group and pretend to work with them, then sneak off and try to file a bogus patent on the work done by the group. And how convenient that MS wants the PTO to move to a first-to-file system, which rewards the thief instead of the inventor. All this time I thought Al Gore invented the Internet, when really it was Bill G. |
| #2 By 3653 (63.162.177.143) at 3/24/2005 12:45:03 PM |
| Latch - read #4... then pucker up and kiss my... |
| #3 By 15406 (216.191.227.90) at 3/24/2005 3:26:33 PM |
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Dammit, I had a huge response written before this damn webboard decided I neede to login again even though I was already logged in, and toasted my response. F%#$#$K! This isn't the first time tihs board has done that either. I can't be bothered to retype everything, but the gist of it was:
#4: MS says a lot of things and then changes its mind when convenient. I doubt MS patented it behind the IETF's back to protect it. Once it is a public standard, you can't patent it anyway. MS did it so that their "non-discriminatory" license would most likely exclud eopen source. #5: Who are you again? Oh right, someone with nothing to offer other than 'What he said!'. |
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