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| Time: 05:01 EST/10:01 GMT | News Source: ZDNet | Posted By: Viper | ||
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InterTrust on Tuesday said it has received a new patent that it will use against Microsoft in a closely watched intellectual property dispute that could affect the way consumers access music and other digital content. InterTrust, which makes digital rights management software designed to help copyright owners control distribution of their material, was awarded a new patent on a method of transferring digital content between computing devices. The company said it plans to add the patent claim to a suit it filed against Microsoft in April. In that suit, InterTrust claims Microsoft violated its patents by including anti-copying technology similar to InterTrust's in its software for storing and playing music and video files on a personal computer. | ||
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| #1 By 20 (Unknown) at 6/27/2001 11:57:00 AM |
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If InterTrust can prove that they had filed for a patent (Patent Pending) and MS had implemented a technology close enough to that patent to infringe upon it AFTER InterTrust filed for the patent, then they have a case. Otherwise, you can't file for a patent for something that someone else has been doing for years, get the patent and then sue them. Technically, they had it first and they should sue you! From what I recall, the USPTO goes to great lengths to ensure that no one is doing what you're patenting you already. My guess is that InterTrust filed for a very specific patent which the USPTO determined that MS nor anyone else is doing already. Now, InterTrust is using that very specific patent to file a very vague law suit. |
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