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Windows 7 Under Fire For Patent Infringement

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i'm-so-torn dept.

eldavojohn writes "A patent issued in 2003 called 'Method and system for demultiplexing a first sequence of packet components to identify specific components wherein subsequent components are processed without re-identifying components' is now owned by Implicit Networks, who has recently claimed Windows 7 infringes upon it with its Filtering Platform. This is used in Vista, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008. Implicit is seeking a jury trial and damages. A shocking turn of events; you actually want to cheer for Microsoft this time as Implicit is nothing more than a patent licensing company (troll) and has done battle with Sun, AMD, Intel and NVIDIA."

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  1. Actually... by __aakdpj1217 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Monopolysoft gets what coming to them. Monopolysoft has done this plenty of times to companies now it's bad when it's done to them? No thanks I hope this patent mill of a company takes them for everything they got!

  2. cheers by Tom · · Score: 1, Troll

    you actually want to cheer for Microsoft this time

    Please don't tell me what I want to do. Thank you.

    Some people deserve what they get, even if I wouldn't wish it on anyone else. Patent trolls are abominations, but so is Microsoft, and which of them is the worse one is strictly a judgement call.

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  3. I'll start cheering for Microsoft... by pem · · Score: 0, Troll
    when they:
    • Stop using patents as offensive weapons
    • Stop using "standards" as offensive weapons
    • Stop throwing chairs at the competition
  4. Re:Go Microsoft, Believe in me who believes in you by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    And yet, Microsoft is somehow the bad guy in this. Yep. This is definitely Slashdot.

    I wish you with your trolling lies, and the mods that flagged your lies as informative, would get banned.

    Yea, informative about as much as stating the earth is flat. Although you trolls would mod that up too...

  5. Re:And yet there are still software patents. by ZosX · · Score: 0, Troll

    I live and breathe patents every day, and I really don't think the system is as broken as its reputation. That's not to say there are no bad patents. I have personally defended several clients against patents that were almost certainly invalid, and that the clients almost certainly didn't infringe even if they were valid. I have been involved in some classic "patent troll" cases, and I think it's terrible that it's happened.

    And yet you took their money anyways. It is true. Lawyers are evil.

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