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Oracle Fights EpicRealm Patents

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the always-squash-the-little-guy-first dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Oracle is now fighting EpicRealm's web patents after Safelite settled with EpicRealm, then asked Oracle to pay, as per their software license agreement. EpicRealm's patents are vague and 'describe a technique where a web site updates only part of a website instead of having to rebuild the entire page. That may look a lot like DHTML, but apparently it isn't the same.'"

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  1. but...but by gargletheape · · Score: 5, Funny

    But I patented a technique whereby companies with names starting with 'O' sue companies whose names start with 'E' over patents that are bullshit.

    Send me 10,000 moneys now!

  2. Dear Oracle. by Savage-Rabbit · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dear Oracle,

    All your patents are belong to us. Please pay us money.

    Greetings,
    EpicRealms

    --
    Only to idiots, are orders laws.
    -- Henning von Tresckow
  3. Re:The true problem with patents by indifferent+children · · Score: 4, Funny
    They (presumably) have a fourth, which may well be original and non-obvious.

    Yes, updating part of a web page using JavaScript on the Internet! .

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    Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. --Mark Twain