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Thursday, July 14, 2005

Microsoft patent ruling [Federal Circuit]
9:47 PM ET

US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, July 14, 2005 [ruling upholding a lower court decision that Microsoft Corp. was liable for infringing on an AT&T Corp. patent for converting speech into computer code in copies of Windows operating system sold abroad]. Excerpt:

Microsoft’s impassioned recitation of a parade of horribles that may befall the domestic software industry — such as the relocation of manufacturing facilities overseas — provides an insufficient basis for reaching a different result in this case.

Read the full text of the opinion here [PDF]. Reported in JURIST’s Paper Chase here.

it's such a shame when the most cashed up corporation on the planet gets told to stop whining, and play by the same rules as everyone else. [how will they cope with only making a profit?]

particularly when the very same corporation is well know for it's excessively aggressive pursuit of anyone who it feels just might be using somehting that could fall under one of their many many purchased patents.