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FTC Investigates Submarine Patents

Posted by michael on from the depth-charge dept.

Schnake writes: "An article on USAToday talks about how the FTC is investigating Sun Microsystems, Unocal, and Rambus to determine whether they illegally kept patents secret while helping set industry standards! And a quote from the ZDNet article: "It noted that all three companies had filed patent infringement lawsuits against firms they say owed them royalties. But the litigation backfired when those firms countersued, charging them with concealing their patents, and complained to the FTC.""

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  1. Re:WTC by PhilHibbs · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    They all survived ( http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2001/09/12/sun .htm )

  2. Re:WTC by elmegil · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    It was a field office. I believe there were sales, service, and education personnell there.

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  3. Re:My own patents. by Hard_Code · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    But seriously, the new Slashdot is really fscked up. Oh Slashdot is down sorry. Oh we logged you out randomly sorry. Hold on cowboy it's been 4.5 Gazillion Jabillion years and 12345 nanoseconds since your last post! Lameness filter rejected your message - Slashdot is too lame to accept it. Please follow this broken link with arbitrary spaces in it for further assistance.

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