Pressing Patents
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While Microsoft may seem to be knocking off its legal issues, one by one (and slowly whittling down its $50 billion cash pile in the process), there are at least 30 more unsettled patent cases involving the Redmondians. At the same time, Microsoft is building up a hefty patent arsenal of its own. The company is filing for protection for, on average, ten patents per week, while simultaneously forging a number of patent cross-licensing deals with the likes of Sun Microsystems and InterTrust Technologies. |
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((According to Microsoft's Kaefer, "We'll make our IP available to all comers, open-source or not." Kaefer added that Microsoft isn't focused on what garage-shop developers are doing but that if a major corporation is using its IP, "We would need to look at it." )) --- And would you be inclined to believe Microsoft???
Posted by Douglas Skoglund | April 13, 2004 2:24 PM